Realtime Cartography in Operational Hydrology
Summary
The ultimate goal of any map remains unchanged to this day: the purposive and preferably undisturbed delivery of spatial information to the user. For that purpose, cartographers follow cartographic rules and regulations which apply to map production work steps such as acquisition, storage, processing, visualization and archiving of data. Up to the present, these work steps were mostly accomplished off-line, with human supervision. For a web-based real-time cartographic application, however, the entire map production process must be achieved in real-time, on-line and with as little human control as possible. Little research has been done so far in this field and therefore we propose to research into methods for constant and automatic adjustment of cartographic rules and
regulation.
In our proposed project, real-time cartography is oriented toward operational hydrology. The automated cartographic process will be implemented in a web-based prototype application that aims at supporting decision makers in their task to monitor developments and actual situations of looming flood events. While much effort in flood risk management is made in the field of forecasting, the
real-time monitoring component is likewise important in order to classify, document and assess upcoming or ongoing flood events. We therefore need up-to-date and diversified, yet condensed and easy to grasp data visualizations with which decision makers can constantly revaluate actual hydrological situations.
Project period
01.10.2006 – 30.09.2010
Researchers
Lead: Hurni, Lorenz
Internal: Lienert, Christophe
Funding source
SNF
Partner
University of Bern, Institute of Geography, Hydrology
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