Good news for users of four ARS natural resource computer models: MOSES is coming to guide them. MOSES is the Modular Operational Soil Erosion System, a new state-of-the-art graphic interface program. ARS scientists are redesigning the way users generate and organize the information needed for simulated erosion predictions from the existing computer models. When completed, MOSES will link the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation, the Water Erosion Prediction Project, the Revised Wind Erosion Equation and the Wind Erosion Prediction System--complete with color graphics and audio feedback. MOSES includes a "wizard" that leads users through input choices. The new interface should make it quicker, easier and more efficient for model users to enter information and interpret results. This will be especially helpful to users in the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and Forest Service and at the U.S. Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management for solving erosion problems that are part of their agency's mission.
National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory, West Lafayette, IN
Charles R. Meyer, (317) 494-8695

Last Updated: April 25, 1997
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