Setting the Scene

The Water Pipeline and Bubbles in

Action for Remote Sensing for

Water Modelling and Management –

Addressing Practitioner Needs –

A Brief Introduction and Snapshot

Alex Loy

DES

QWMN Remote Sensing for Water Modelling and

Management Zoom Workshop - 28 May 2020

Why is remote sensing for water modelling

and management important for practitioners

using remote sensing information?

• Water modelling and management in its widest definition

• Even though remote sensing is not a new field and has been

around for decades, we are all at various stages of awareness,

knowledge and experience with our remote sensing journey for

many areas of business remote sensing could be useful for

• Large community of practitioners with a range of needs in using

remote sensing information

• Enormous benefits of better data for practitioners and the wider

community

• Picture where and how you and your activities/projects/entities

fit into the water pipeline – micro and macro?

Water Pipelines

Water Pipelines

•Approaches and

Methodologies

•Standards and

Guidelines

•Processes and

Procedures

•Research and

Development

•Communities of

Practice

•…

Water Pipelines

•Approaches and

Methodologies

•Standards and

Guidelines

•Processes and

Procedures

•Research and

Development

•Communities of

Practice

•…

•Measurement

•Monitoring

•Data Collection

•Data Validation

•Data Quality

•Data Uncertainty

•Data Archiving

•Data Accessibility

•Data

Transformation

•Data Analysis and

Assessment

•…

Water Pipelines

•Approaches and

Methodologies

•Standards and

Guidelines

•Processes and

Procedures

•Research and

Development

•Communities of

Practice

•…

•Measurement

•Monitoring

•Data Collection

•Data Validation

•Data Quality

•Data Uncertainty

•Data Archiving

•Data Accessibility

•Data

Transformation

•Data Analysis and

Assessment

•…

•Surface water and

groundwater

hydrology/

hydraulics

•Coastal and

Ocean science

and engineering

•Ecological

science

•Water quality

•Waste and

contaminants

•Social

•Economics

•…

Water Pipelines

•Approaches and

Methodologies

•Standards and

Guidelines

•Processes and

Procedures

•Research and

Development

•Communities of

Practice

•…

•Measurement

•Monitoring

•Data Collection

•Data Validation

•Data Quality

•Data Uncertainty

•Data Archiving

•Data Accessibility

•Data

Transformation

•Data Analysis and

Assessment

•…

•Surface water and

groundwater

hydrology/

hydraulics

•Coastal and

Ocean science

and engineering

•Ecological

science

•Water quality

•Waste and

contaminants

•Social

•Economics

•…

•Land, Water,

Environment

o Plans

o Policies

o Water Markets

o Water

Development

and Supply

o Management

o Operations

o Regulation and

Compliance

o Community,

Stakeholder

engagement,

consultation,

outcomes

Water Pipelines

•Approaches and

Methodologies

•Standards and

Guidelines

•Processes and

Procedures

•Research and

Development

•Communities of

Practice

•…

•Measurement

•Monitoring

•Data Collection

•Data Validation

•Data Quality

•Data Uncertainty

•Data Archiving

•Data Accessibility

•Data

Transformation

•Data Analysis and

Assessment

•…

•Surface water and

groundwater

hydrology/

hydraulics

•Coastal and

Ocean science

and engineering

•Ecological

science

•Water quality

•Waste and

contaminants

•Social

•Economics

•…

•Land, Water,

Environment

o Plans

o Policies

o Water Markets

o Water

Development

and Supply

o Management

o Operations

o Regulation and

Compliance

o Community,

Stakeholder

engagement,

consultation,

outcomes

Brief Graphic Example to

depict some of the above

concepts

• Time variant 3-D

characteristics, variables,

processes, etc

• Atmosphere – land –

underground

• Headwaters – coast – ocean

• Climate, topography,

bathymetry, land use, soils,

geology, infrastructure

development, ecology, water

quantity and quality, human,

ecological and environmental

water use, etc

• Extreme events, e.g. floods,

droughts, cyclones,

earthquakes, bushfires,

tsunamis, etc.

Conceptual model of processes

Spatial and Temporal dimensions highlighted

• 3D spatial data

• Continuous time series

• Our future data in space and time will become our

historical data basis for future of human endeavours

Water Pipelines

Bubbles in the Pipeline

Water Pipelines