VISUALISING VICTORIA’S

GROUNDWATERAdapting new technologies to sustainably manage a precious

resource

A collaboration of 13 partner organisations

Use high-speed broadband to: Distribute groundwater bore data Visualise groundwater data Model groundwater systems on-the-fly

An interoperative web-GIS that federates groundwater data from disparate sources to assist water managers make the correct choices for the sustainable use of a precious resource

Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater project

Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater project

http://ngwd-bdnes.cits.rncan.gc.ca/service/api_ngwds/en/gwml.html

Interoperability is based on the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards for Geography Markup Language (GML), specifically GroundwaterML

Future horizons: federated groundwater data bases through interoperability

Canada’s Groundwater Information Networkhttp://gw-info.net/

The Atlas of Living Australiahttp://www.ala.org.au/explore/species-maps/

Trove – National Library of Australiahttp://trove.nla.gov.au/

AuScopehttp://portal.auscope.org/portal/gmap.html

One Geologyhttp://portal.onegeology.org/

Examples of interoperable databases

Combines groundwater databases from 9 Provinces into a single web-GIS (~ 2 million bores)

Data assembly

Inter-operability

Application development

Data transmission

End-use testing

Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater project

System architecture

Visualising Victoria’s Groundwater project

End-products

Tools that provide (on-the-fly): Groundwater bore details Water-level graphs Chemistry graphs Depth to watertable Cross sections of aquifers Three-dimensional models of groundwater systems

Depth to watertable

Moorabool River aquifers