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  1. TauDEM (Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models) is a suite of Digital
  2. Elevation Model (DEM) tools for the extraction and analysis of hydrologic
  3. information from topography as represented by a DEM. TauDEM provides the
  4. following capability:
  5. * Development of hydrologically correct (pit removed) DEMs using the flooding
  6. approach
  7. * Calculates flow paths (directions) and slopes
  8. * Calculates contributing area using single and multiple flow direction methods
  9. * Multiple methods for the delineation of stream networks including topographic
  10. form-based methods sensitive to spatially variable drainage density
  11. * Objective methods for determination of the channel network delineation
  12. threshold based on stream drops
  13. * Delineation of watersheds and subwatersheds draining to each stream segment
  14. and association between watershed and segment attributes for setting up
  15. hydrologic models
  16. * Specialized functions for terrain analysis
  17. Note TauDEM also works fine with MPICH, so if you have it installed it is not
  18. necessary to install OpenMPI.