1. HydroNET and Real Time Radar Rainfall Data
for improved hydrology, flood forecasting and flood warning

2. Share your water information with us
Too much to do and not enough time!?
Give us an overview about what you have achieved
Funders
Stakeholder
Can my house flood?
Do you have information that we can use in our project
Community
Consultant
When will the cyclone hit? Will we get flooded? How much?
Can you give me a monthly report on the water system status
Can you give me information about water levels?
Explain the problem of there being lots of data and information, but difficulty in getting it and then making it available to all those that require various questions answered. All takes time and manual intervention from you.
Colleagues
Board members
Partner

3. I can focus now on making the right decisions with my partners
Funders
Stakeholder
Consultant
Community
So HydroNET links to the various data sources available and gives the various professionals their own personalised dashboards with the information they particularly need to make decisions, in real time, automatically.
Colleagues
Board members
Partner

4. NTERNATIONAL software – LOCAL partners – TAILORED solutions
An open platform developed with and for water professionals.
SaaS solution: An internet connection is all the infrastructure you need.
Live, Personlised dashboards to support smart water management decisions.
NTERNATIONAL software – LOCAL partners – TAILORED solutions

5. Conducted user requirement analysis
HydroNET Users today
The new insights and experience gained by these decisions can be transferred into knowledge. The HydroNET Water Control Room can transfer data into knowledge.
HydroNET is a decision support system that provides the right information at the right time and empowers water professionals in making the right decisions in a transparent way and in sharing this information with stakeholders to create awareness.
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6. VIEW, combine and analyse WATCH keep an eye on your water system,
CONNECT internal and external data (consult)
REPORT information to stakeholders
ALERT, timely alerts and reduced impact
The HydroNET platform is currently used by more than 2000 water professionals and 23 partners in 8 different countries.
HydroNET:
Enables partners to collaborate in various dimensions:
- Golden triangle: public – private partners – knowledge institutes
- The information chain: data owners – application developers – end-users
- Various disciplines (food, water, energy)
- Various countries
Scalable approach, easily add:
- new data
- new tools
- new partners
- new countries
- new disciplines
Transparent and accountable
- Easy to replicate
- Use of remote sensing data
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9. Improved weather information for less cost and effort
RainWatch
HydroNET RainWatch:
Improved weather information for less cost and effort

10. Why RainWatch? Properly install and maintain rain gauges is difficult
Model calibration results are poor
Rainfall can still misses the gauges
Many people, many needs
Why RainWatch?

11. Don’t miss a rainfall event
Why radar?
Rain gauge (10.9 mm)
Don’t miss a rainfall event

12. Murphy’s Creek model calibration

13. Rain Gauge vs Radar
Radar
Rain gauge

14. Current Radar Coverage - Australia

15. Calibrated radar with BoM gauges or your own gauges
RainMap application

16. Aggregated to your areas on interest.
Download
RainMap application

17. HydroREPORT: generate reports in seconds
Automatically generate
Word or PDF documents
Publish real-time information on website
The HydroNET platform is currently used by more than 2000 water professionals and 23 partners in 8 different countries.
HydroNET:
Enables partners to collaborate in various dimensions:
- Golden triangle: public – private partners – knowledge institutes
- The information chain: data owners – application developers – end-users
- Various disciplines (food, water, energy)
- Various countries
Scalable approach, easily add:
- new data
- new tools
- new partners
- new countries
- new disciplines
Transparent and accountable
- Easy to replicate
- Use of remote sensing data
(c) HydroLogic

18. Weather Forecast application
Many models:
BOM ACCESS
BOM ADFD
GFS
ECMWF ENSEMBLE
NOWCAST
Weather Forecast application

19. Access to automatic BoM gauges -
And your own
Stations application

22. How does radar work? What are radar measurements?
Measurement of encountered obstacles in terms of reflectivity
Usual resolution 1 x 1 km (or 1° x 1 km), every 5 minutes, 0.5 dBZ steps
Important
Indirect measurement
Instantaneous measurement
Measurement at certain hight
Ground check essential

23. From raw to calibrated radar
Radar data quality control and correction
Speckle and clutter (e.g. wind mills, towers, mountains)
Radial effects (blockage)
Other spurious effects
Rain gauge data quality control and gap definition
No multi-day sums
No large gaps
No wrong zero measurements (hidden gaps)
Radar data adjustment to raingauge data

24. Benefits of Radar in HydroNET
Rainfall is the most principal factor in accurate modelling
WMO minimum requirements are 1 gauge / 20km2
Radar in HydroNET Provides:
High spatial distribution of 1km X 1km;
High temporal availability of 6 minute intervals;

25. RainWatch provides the information you need
HydroNET also provides easy online access to:
SaaS solution
BoM and other weather forecasts and stations
Other global rain products (eg. ECMWF, GFS)
Historical, Observed and Forecast data
Forecast Ensemble data
At the click of a button!
HydroNET provides the tools to enable water professionals to
Use the numbers behind the pictures
Export to model input files
Upload shape files for catchment averages
Generate rainfall reports
Download long time series
Make personalised dashboards
Calibration with your rainfall gauges in real time to provide a blended dataset of both sources;
Ease of use (i.e. RADAR readily accessible via the HydroNET platform);
Improved weather information; reduced costs. Same cost as 2 to 3 automatic rain gauges

26. Using Rainfall Gauges alone will undoubtedly require a very intensive and expensive installation, operations, maintenance and IT costs.
RainWatch and radar offers a very dense spatial and temporal network without the IT hassle and O&M costs, at a cheaper price, quickly and easily.

27. How can HydroNET benefit you?