Water Applications
Description of work carried out by the IE Lab in the water domain
Staff from the IE Lab contribute to the program of work being carried out within the Water for A Healthy Country flagship. Much of this work is focussed on activities to support the needs of BoM Water Division being via WIRADA.
The areas to which we contribute in planning year 2008-2009 were:
Hydrologist Workbench (HWB)
The HWB is exploring the application of the Kepler scientific workflow system to data processing application in the hydrology domain. Example: calculate the average annual rainfall runoff of a water catchment given the catchment boundary and gridded rainfall runoff data.
In this year the focus of the work has been to develop and demonstrate expertise in the use of the Kepler environment in the hydrology domain. In the next year (2009-2010) we will use our experience in semantics to 'semantically enable' Kepler workflow.
Water Data Transfer Standards (WDTS)
The WDTS project has developed an XML schema - Water Data Transfer Format (WTDF) - for the exchange of water related information. WDTF is a response to the needs of the BoM to exchange water data with over 260 agencies in Australia that are required to provide water data to the BoM. WDTS is based on the OGC's Observations and Measurement and the requirements of the Water Regulations.
Our staff applied their knowledge of existing observation standards (eg OGC O&M) and vocabulary representations, and techniques to harmonise of overlapping vocabularies.
Australian Hydrological GeoFabric (AHGF)
The AHGF is providing advice to the BoM on data modelling methods to develop an evolvable national scale spatial data infrastructure for hydrological applications. We contributed out knowledge of spatial database system to a study of the suitability of current spatial database software to the support these data models.
Condamine Balonne
CSIRO is developing a real time flow forecasting and flood inundation mapping system for the Condamine Balonne catchment via a contract with the National Water Commission. Our staff have contributed project management and software engineering skills to this project.
