Data Science Symposium

Welcome (also on behalf of the 3TU.Datacentrum)

Gerard Blom

Unit manager Inland Water System

Our mission

Working on technical and environmental challenges

Through serious gaming, (open source) software, publications, data and models, doctorate supervision, Deltares Academy, workshops, congresses and projects/research projects

Sharing knowledge

Delft-FEWS

Flood forecasting for USA

Support for National Weather Service and Forecasting Centres

during implementation of their own system based on Delft-FEWS

Hydrological sciences / System informatics

Climate Change (global hydrological modelling)

3Di; using high resulation data in moddeling

floods

December 3, 2012

Moderne LiDAR-hoogtedata

<= 0,5 x 0,5 meter resolutie

More accuracy, more information

Maptable, Serious games, ...

Present challenges

• Handling large data sets

• Sharing data

• Data mining

Addressing the 4th paradigm