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Dear GISers,

The long awaited BasinSoft program is now available for download from the following ftp site:

http://sd.water.usgs.gov/~cprice/bsoft/

See the 00README.txt file for installation instructions.

In case you are asking, "What is BasinSoft?"  BasinSoft is a GIS-based suite of programs developed to utilize digital cartographic data to quantify 27 selected morphometric characteristics and optional area-weighted characteristics for a drainage basin. The BasinSoft Version file is attached below for more information.

If you have any questions, please contact GS-W_Help_Arc@usgs.gov

- Mark N.
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Basinsoft will NOT run with a "generic" version of ArcInfo. Use of this version of Basinsoft requires an ArcInfo enhancement patch from the Geographic Information Program Office, Water Resources Division, USGS.

(See http://wwwgipo.er.usgs.gov/usgs_amls.html).

The development of Basinsoft is continuing. Every effort has been made to provide adequate documentation for this internal release (version 1.0) through the use of pop-up help files denoted by question marks on the menus. USGS Water Resources Investigations Report, WRIR 95-4287, 'Description, Instructions, and Verification for Basinsoft, a Computer Program to Quantify Drainage-Basin Characteristics' by C.A. Harvey and D.A. Eash also contains information pertinent to the successful use of Basinsoft by a casual ArcInfo user.

For BasinSoft support, contact the USGS WRD Geographic Information Program Office at:

USGS Lotus:  GS-W Help Arc
Normal email:  gs-w_help_arc@usgs.gov

Thanks are due to Craig Harvey for his continued assistance to make the basinsoft tool available to USGS researchers. Mr. Harvey is under contract to the USGS to provide support for Sun users of basinsoft until October 1, 2001.