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GEDAP is a general purpose software system for the analysis and management of laboratory data including real-time experiment control and data acquisition functions. It has been designed with particular emphasis on random wave generation and analysis in hydrodynamics laboratories, but it can easily be adapted to other applications as well. GEDAP was originally developed for internal use by the NRC Canadian Hydraulics Centre but it is now also used by many other laboratories in Canada and in several other countries. (Click here for other users of GEDAP)
A primary advantage of GEDAP is that it is a well-proven system that has been gradually developed over many years to satisfy a broad range of real world project requirements in a hydrodynamics laboratory. The main goal has been to provide high quality data analysis with a consistent user environment while minimizing software development and maintenance costs. Consequently, it is a highly modular package that is fully integrated by a common data file structure and a common set of support routines. The file structure can efficiently handle all types of laboratory data with record lengths up to 500,000 samples per channel. The common format ensures that any analysis program can process data generated by any other program. GEDAP for Windows NT is now available. Further information is available on GEDAP data acquisition, the generation of 2D waves (WAVE_GEN) and 3D waves (3D_WAVES), data analysis, and data plotting (GPLOT).
