STEMgis is a Temporal Geographic Information System. It handles all common requirements of mapping software PLUS the additional dimensions of time and depth. STEMgis enables you to explore any spatial data throughout the four dimensions of space and time.

STEMgis has many unique tools that enable you to investigate multi-attribute data through time.

Animation of tiger population

Animation of sea-level rise

Animation of crime statistics

FloodRanger is an educational game about managing flood defences along rivers and coasts. It is aimed at flood defence practitioners, local authorities, insurers, universities and schools.

The objective of the game is to defend urban areas and sites of special scientific interest while maintaining levels of housing and employment for an expanding population.

Screenshot of FloodRanger showing flood management regions and flood defence cards

FloodRanger World is an extension to FloodRanger and enables you to create a FloodRanger game for anywhere in the world. FloodRanger itself has been used in many different countries throughout the world by government departments, non-government organisations, universities, engineering companies.

FloodRanger World gives you the opportunity to introduce your own data for your own area of interest, therefore finding strategies to cope with real-life flooding.

This version will enable flood defence practitioners, local authorities, universities and schools to create more realistic scenarios to help with flood management in a practical way. The game allows ideas to be tested out in virtual worlds before millions of pounds are spent in the real world.

CoastRanger Management Simulator has been designed to explain the consequences that different management approaches have on coastal processes, natural environments and flood and coastal erosion risk.  The software highlights the range of interests that need to be balanced on the coast and demonstrates the difficult decisions that have to be made in some areas.  CoastRanger MS simulates typical real world scenarios and provides information on management approaches, defence types, coastal behaviour and legislation.  The software is intended to appeal to a wide range of audiences including:

SimCoast is a fuzzy logic rule-based expert system designed to enable researchers, managers and decision-makers to create and evaluate different policy scenarios for coastal zone management.  It is interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral. It aims to combine traditional and advanced specialist knowledge about coastal zones with a set of reasoning and analytical tools.  Experts involved include engineers, natural and social scientists, law-makers, administrators, community and national leaders.  Via workshops and consensus discussions, sensitive issues such as transboundary pollution and cross-sectoral socioeconomic effects can be translated into rules for policy formulation and decision-making.

Discovery Software has also created two Flash websites for environmental research programs:

Flood Risk and Management in Estuaries, Promoting best practice in estuary flood risk management. FRaME: 'Flood Risk management in Estuaries: Sustainable New Land Use in Flood Control Areas' is a transnational project for developing innovative solutions for flood risk management in estuaries. The project combines a range of transnational activities with demonstration sites that are located in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands. FRaME is co-financed by the European Union Community Initiative Programme Interreg IIIB North Sea Region and ran from 1 January 2003 to 31 December 2006.

NineNil is a complete on-line squash and league management system designed by players for players. It enables the organisation of the leagues to be conducted on-line. NineNil automates the workload traditionally completed by the league organisers.

NineNil provides access to fixtures lists, results, verified score cards, divisional tables, player ranking lists and player statistics. It can be viewed by teams, its members, other clubs and the squash world.

For the participating clubs and teams, it is a secure password protected system providing access to league set-up features, player rankings lists and score cards.

NineNil Box is a box league and ladder management system designed for squash clubs. It also has a secure login facility and provides statistics and online score entry.

We also offer an online tennis 'box league' management system for interested customers.