The Health-e-Waterways Project - Data Integration for Smarter, Collaborative, Whole-of-Water Cycle Management

The Health-e-Waterways Project is a collaboration between the University of Queensland, Microsoft Research and the South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership (SEQ-HWP) (a consortium of over 60 local government, state agency, universities, community and environmental organizations). The aim of the project is to develop a highly innovative framework and set of services to enable streamlined access to a collection of real-time, near-real-time and static datasets acquired through ecosystem health monitoring programs (EHMP) in South East Queensland. This paper describes the underlying water information management system and Web Portal that we are developing to enable the sharing and integration of the high quality data and models for SEQ water resource managers. In addition we describe the interactive and dynamic ecosystem reporting services that we have developed and the WaterWiki that is being established to enable knowledge exchange between the online community of Queensland�...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2009
• Where: CISIS
• Authors: Abdulmonem Alabri, Jane Hunter, Catharine van Ingen, Eva G. Abal
• Keywords: CISIS 2009, Queensland Healthy Waterways, SEQ Water Resource, Software Engineering, South East Queensland