{"id":122151,"date":"2011-12-20T23:39:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T23:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/australian-hydrological-geospatial-fabric-version-2-0-now-available\/"},"modified":"2018-07-19T15:10:57","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T22:10:57","slug":"australian-hydrological-geospatial-fabric-version-2-0-now-available","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/water\/australian-hydrological-geospatial-fabric-version-2-0-now-available","title":{"rendered":"Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric Version 2.0 Now Available"},"author":4911,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[23051],"tags":[24711,39041,24981],"industry":[],"product":[],"class_list":["post-122151","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water","tag-australia","tag-geofabric","tag-hydro"],"acf":{"short_description":"The Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (GeoFabric) is the foundation of the Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS),...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>The <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/water\/geofabric\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (GeoFabric)<\/a><\/strong> is the foundation of the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/water\/about\/wip\/awris.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS)<\/a><\/strong>, developed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australia\u2019s Bureau of Meteorology<\/a> as a spatial framework for discovery, query, reporting and modeling of water information. AWRIS is an effort mandated by the Australian Government to help enhance the understanding\u00a0 and management of Australia\u2019s water resources.\u00a0 The GeoFabric provides a modular conceptual model that connects input datasets and products for analysis based on:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>combinations of data products at different spatial and temporal resolutions,<\/li>\n<li>different feature representations from a single maintenance environment which allows you to model how water is stored, transported and used through the landscape.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more-->The key to the <strong>GeoFabric<\/strong> that makes it unique, versatile and robust, is<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The underlying infrastructure of the Geofabric is a set of points, also called &#8216;contracted nodes&#8217;, that represent known features in the landscape such as the confluence of two major rivers, river outlets, inland sinks and water body inflow and outflow points.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026Each contracted node feature has an associated &#8216;contracted catchment&#8217;. Contracted nodes are linked together into a node-link network (Australian Hydrologic Geospatial Fabric Product Guide, 2011).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These points have a permanent identifier present in all versions of the Geofabric, thus providing a framework through space and time.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the node-links that connect the system together, and relate the system components: Surface Cartography, Surface Flow Network, Surface Catchments, Groundwater Cartography, Hydrology Reporting Catchments, and Hydrology Reporting Regions. Elevation data, the derived digital terrain models with their derivative, and the surface water features are connected in an integrated system that allow analysis and modeling, as well as cartographic quality display of the results.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads.esri.com\/blogs\/hydro\/Geofabric\/Fig3.jpg\" alt=\"GeoFabric product relationships\" width=\"658\" height=\"714\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The GeoFabric is an exemplary hydro GIS, which continues to be enhanced, and <strong>Version 2.0<\/strong> was released in November.<\/p>\n<p>The new component in <strong>Version 2.0<\/strong> is <strong>Groundwater Cartography<\/strong>. Groundwater Cartography is a geodatabase that contains Feature Classes that include information about aquifer boundaries, types, and contours, as well as information about the groundwater like hydraulic conductivity and salinity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads.esri.com\/blogs\/hydro\/Geofabric\/Fig1.jpg\" alt=\"GeoFabric Groundwater Cartography Expanded\" width=\"262\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bureau has a wealth of information about the GeoFabric on their <a title=\"GeoFabric\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/water\/geofabric\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, including <a title=\"GeoFabric Documentation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/water\/geofabric\/documentation.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">documentation<\/a> for each GeoFabric product. Their\u00a0 product tutorials are going to be updated as well (coming in the next few months).<\/p>\n<p>Check back to the <strong>Hydro Blog<\/strong> for additional updates.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thanks to Caitlin Scopel and Erika Boghici for providing this post. Questions: cscopel@esri.com. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4911,"user_firstname":"Caitlin","user_lastname":"Scopel","nickname":"Caitlin Scopel","user_nicename":"coscopel","display_name":"Caitlin Scopel","user_email":"CScopel@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:16:31","user_description":"Senior Project Manager for the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World Environment Team. 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