New JavaStics software and Stics version available

The latest software distribution of JavaStics 1.5.3 (CeCILL-B license) and STICS 10.3.0 (CeCILL-C license) is available and compatible with the previous one. The JavaSTICS-1.5.3-STICS-10.3.0.zip archive and the STICS source files  STICS-sources-10.3.0.zip as well, are downloadable from here.

This JavaStics distribution is compatible with the previous ones using STICS 10.x.y and thus uses the same files formats.

• STICS version has been improved on a few points
  • some bugs have been fixed: wrong warnings when PET is calculated, filtering irrigations and fertilisations when the date is 999
  • some functionalities have been added: command line argument for specifying a usm directory, forcing options codes through the param.sti file
• JavaSTICS has evolved too
  • a fixe has been done: access to optional soil parameters after creating a new soil
  • parameters files editing has been improved
• STICS book
  • updated for version control used, and urls
  • long figures captions rendering

The full changes list is given in the Changes.pdf file (doc directory).

Formalisms and model use are fully described in the Stics book available here and on the Editions QUAE platform.