Abstract
Developing the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric)
Track: Water Resources
Author(s): Tony Boston, Elizabeth McDonald, Dovey Dee
The Bureau of Meteorology is developing the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric) as the underpinning geospatial framework for the Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS); a system assembling hydrological monitoring data from over 200 organisations in Australia to populate a national database. These data will be made publicly available and will be used to generate water resource assessments and annual National Water Accounts.
The Geofabric is conceptually similar to the US National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHD+), consisting of a national surface hydrology layer and monitoring sites, within a network topology, linked to a 1 second national Digital Elevation Model (DEM), and derived national catchments and reporting units. Development of Geofabric data sets is being undertaken through collaborative arrangements with Geoscience Australia, CSIRO and ANU.
The paper will discuss the goals, objectives and coverage of the Geofabric, data processing and acquisition issues, and preliminary work on an implementation data model.
Tony Boston
Bureau of Meteorology
GPO Box 2334
Canberra , ACT 2601
Australia
Phone: 612 6232 3503
E-mail: t.boston@bom.gov.au
Elizabeth McDonald
Bureau of Meteorology
GPO Box 2334
Canberra , ACT 2601
Australia
Phone: 612 6232 3522
E-mail: e.mcdonald@bom.gov.au
Dovey Dee
Bureau of Meteorology
GPO Box 1289
Melbourne , Victoria 3001
Australia
Phone: 613 8638 8206
E-mail: d.dee@bom.gov.au