Researchers, engineers, and educators in Europe, the Middle East, and North America are using it. Canadian researchers are using it in their Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment study of the Mackenzie River Basin the second biggest river basin in North America to better understand the role of cold regions in the global climate system. And university staff are also using it as a teaching tool. Garbrecht says this is an advantage, because it allows the user to select preferred or existing display software without being forced to buy another package. New capabilities are being developed and incorporated into the software to further broaden its application horizon.
Idle boasting is by definition a hollow indulgence.
Professor Lawrence Marts had occasion during his sabbatical in 1991 to visit a research lab in Oklahoma, and there he met Jurgen Garbrecht, a hydraulic engineer with the U.S. Agriculture Research Service. As an idle boast, I told him that if I had an elevation model I could do that in five minutes. So he took a floppy disk with this model off his shelf, handed it to me and said, show me. Martz chuckles at the recollection. But we decided to collaborate on the package to make it of use worldwide.