http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~scheuese/ Orca Development News. The Flood Risk Assessment ontology to be used with the Orca tool is now available online at http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~scheuese/Repo/FRA/FRA_Ontology.rdf. Fri, 21 Jul 2013 20:00:00 +0100 Risk assessment with Orca is knowledge-based and geared by a flood risk assessment ontology. A graphical depiction of that ontology is now available online at <a target="blank" href="http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~scheuese/ontology.pdf">http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~scheuese/ontology.pdf<a>. Fri, 21 Jul 2013 20:00:00 +0100 The Landscape Ecology Lab at the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin is happy to announce that a special component is being developed as Orca plugin to support the assessment of ecosystem services. Similar to the assessment of flood risks, an ontology will be developed that implements knowledge on ecosystem services and that will gear a knowledge-based ES assessment. Stay tuned to receive news on this exciting development! Fri, 21 Jul 2013 20:00:00 +0100 Compared to the most recent version of FloodCalc, Orca will contain plenty of new features. Amongst those are new grid data source editing tools, for example an Artifical Neural Network tool. Also multicriteria analysis will be improved, featuring new weighting methods and functions such as ranking or the Analytic Hierarchy Approach (AHP). Besides, the overall performance of Orca will be superior to FloodCalc by far. Orca's code has completely been rewritten in managed C++ for a better integration in the .NET environment. Orca's dynamic code evaluation at runtime will be based on C# instead of Python. Mon, 07 Nov 2011 20:00:00 +0100 The FloodCalc tool is now maintained at the Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research GmbH (UFZ) Leipzig. Here, we are happy to present you Orca. Orca will feature many improved functions of FloodCalc, but will also offer a hand-tailored suite of tools which will make your heart jump! Check back for more information. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 12:00:00 +0100