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Define project and area
Create or reopen a project, define the point or spatial AOI, and select the simulation period.
Software
One desktop scientific workflow.
BAITSSS Desktop organizes project inputs, hourly simulation, Results, and scientific exports.
BAITSSS Desktop is under active development.
01 · Product walkthrough
BAITSSS Desktop in 4–5 Minutes
Current BAITSSS Desktop development build.Project → data → run → Results
02 · Workflow
From Project to Results
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Prepare and verify environmental data
Organize Landsat vegetation information, NLDAS weather, terrain, soil, land cover, and required model inputs.
03
Configure and run the model
Review scientific settings and run the continuous hourly water and energy balance.
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Monitor, stop, resume, and recover
Track progress and completed model hours. Stop and resume from checkpoints when needed.
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Inspect and export Results
Review mapped ET, pixel time series, soil-water conditions, modeled irrigation requirement, run information, and exports.
03 · Execution
How BAITSSS Runs the Model
Sequential state · parallel spatial work
Each completed hour becomes the next hour’s starting state.
BAITSSS advances time sequentially because each hour starts from the surface and root-zone state produced by the previous hour. Within an hour, spatial work can be divided into blocks and distributed across persistent CPU workers. The blocks are collected before the hour is completed, and that state becomes the starting point for the next hour.
04 · Results
What BAITSSS Produces
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Evapotranspiration
Mapped and time-series ET, with separate vegetation and soil contributions.
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Soil-water status
Surface-layer and root-zone water conditions carried through the simulation period.
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Modeled irrigation requirement
Modeled irrigation requirement is separate from known or recorded irrigation applied in the field.
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Analysis records
Maps, pixel time series, run information, scientific exports, settings, assumptions, and input provenance.
05 · Performance
Computational Scale
| Execution case | Observed time | Interpretation |
|---|---|---|
| 168 h, single 30 m Landsat pixel | 2.19 s transformed execution core | Controlled single-pixel benchmark |
| 3,336 h, single pixel | 124.48 s total run time | Single-pixel production run |
| 275,098 model cells × 24 h | about 52 s | Preliminary spatial engineering observation |
| 275,098 model cells × 168 h | about 308 s | Preliminary spatial engineering observation |
The spatial measurements are preliminary engineering observations. Final large-area benchmarking is still being completed.
06 · Development status
Current Software Status
Current satellite support: BAITSSS Desktop currently supports Landsat 7, 8, and 9. Other satellite platforms are not yet incorporated and remain part of future development.
Current
- Project workflow and AOI definition
- Data preparation and readiness
- Landsat 7, 8, and 9 satellite input support
- Hourly execution and multiprocessing spatial route
- Checkpoint and restart
- Results workflow and scientific export
- Run identity and provenance
Still being tested or completed
- Support for additional satellite platforms
- Final large-AOI spatial benchmark
- Broader spatial testing across scenes and projects
- Clean-machine release testing
- Final installer and release packaging
- Broader user testing