Delft-FEWS

1. 10th FEWS User days
Jaap Kwadijk
October 29-30 2014

2. The first FEWS user days, 9 years ago

3. 9 years ago, when was that?
~ 4 months after the first release of Google Earth
(June 2005)

4. FEWS applications, at the 1st user days
All Rivers & Coasts (England & Wales)
Rhine & Meuse
Upper Rhine Basin
Danube /
Kamp (Austria)
European Flood Alert System (JRC)
Waterboard Regge &
Dinkel

5. NATURE NEWS BLOG, 07 may 2014
Global scientific output doubles every nine years

6. Meaning…
Nilometer Cairo At the dawn of flood forecasting
1st FEWS user days
Number of scientific
papers
10th FEWS user days
1st FEWS user days
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Number of scientific
papers

7. WATER AND FLOOD MANAGEMENT AND BIG DATA
What keeps us busy

8. Modern day LiDAR-altimetry
<= 0,5 x 0,5 meter resolution

10. 10 november 2014
Extracting data from OpenStreetMap and SRTM
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OpenStreetMaps contains information on roads, waterways and land cover and use
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Coverage differs per country and regions
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Large potential in: Urban areas Areas with little other data sources
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Data stored in OSM format, lines and polygons with user added tags

11. November 30

12. Global flood risk
Rio+20, 15 mei 2012

13. Gleeson, Wada, Bierkens and van Beek, Nature, 2012.
What should be the size of the aquifer for sustainable recharge groundwater footprint

14. In stead of downloading data, uploading models https://www.google.nl/maps/@16.0041505,-3.6544128,165403m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en http://youtu.be/pHWzO0P9JBE
Extracting globally channel characteristics via Google Earth Explorer

15. Setting up collaborative research
Marc
Bierkens
Huub
Rijnaarts
Eelco
Van Beek
Arjen Hoekstra
Jeroen Aerts
Nick van der Giesen
Dutch Global Water Hub

16. To say something clever about a Water Secure World
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Start being used by key organisations as paradigm to express what we want to achieve
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World Economic Forum, Global Water Partnership, Asian Development Bank / Worldbank
The availability of an acceptable quantity and quality of water for health, livelihoods, ecosystems and production, coupled with an acceptable level of water-related risks to people
Grey and Sadoff (2007)
Water Security