Patent ID: 7136756

Claim:
A method for producing a substantially real-time hydrologic model for a geographical region comprising a non-current hydrological property value, the geographic region comprising at least a cell and at least one inflowing adjacent cell, the cell and inflowing adjacent cell each comprising a plurality of soil parameters and a plurality of surface parameters, the method comprising: creating a topographical flow direction map for the geographical region; displaying the plurality of soil parameters and the plurality of surface parameters for the cell on the topographical flow direction map; editing at least one of the plurality of soil parameters and/or at least one of the plurality of surface parameters affecting the hydrologic property of the cell and inflowing adjacent cells based on an observed precipitation value; simulating the hydrologic property of the cell to produce the real-time hydrological model of the geographical region; updating the hydrologic property of the cell with an observed hydrological property value; adjusting the hydrological model in response to the observed hydrological property value; and apportioning the observed hydrologic property value to the inflowing adjacent cells.