CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System Workshop
WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 - 10:00AM TO 5:00PM
PURPOSE
This workshop introduces you to CUAHSI's Hydrologic Information Systems (HIS). In this workshop, you will learn:
- What the CUAHSI HIS is and how it works (for all – busy people, professors)
- How to use HIS to get and analyze hydrologic data (for all – actual users, students)
- How HIS can be used in modeling and analysis (for modelers – students, programmers, MATLAB users)
- How to share and publish your data using HIS (for data managers – serious users, students collecting data)
- What the future plans are for CUAHSI HIS
SESSION 1: 10:00 – 12:00
INTRODUCTION TO HIS 1.1 (10:00 – 11:00)
Objectives:
- Review CUAHSI HIS goals, capabilities and data available through HIS.
Audience:
- This review will be presented at a high level for busy people (i.e. professors) who want to quickly learn the general capabilities of HIS, at present and anticipated for the future.
Presenters: David Maidment and Tim Whiteaker
Content:
- Introduction (David Maidment – 20 mins)
- HydroExcel demo (Tim Whiteaker)
- HIS web page (Tim Whiteaker)
Materials:
HIS FOR ALL. HOW TO USE HIS TO GET AND ANALYZE HYDROLOGIC DATA (11:00 – 12:00)
Objectives: Following this session participants should be able to:
- Search for data from a particular web service
- Search for data from many web services at once
- Analyze data from web services
- Incorporate water data services into a modeling environment
Audience:
- Researchers and students who will actually work hands on getting and analyzing HIS data
Presenters: David Maidment, Tim Whiteaker, David Tarboton, and Jon Goodall
Content:
- HydroSeek (Tim Whiteaker)
- MATLAB (David Tarboton)
- OpenMI (Jon Goodall) demos
Materials:
LUNCH (12:00 – 1:00)
SESSION 2: 1:00 – 3:00
HIS FOR DATA MANAGERS. HOW TO SHARE AND PUBLISH YOUR DATA USING HIS (1:00 – 3:00)
Objectives: Following this session participants should be able to:
- Load data into ODM using the OD Loader
- Load data into ODM using the Streaming Data Loader
- Examine and edit data in ODM using ODM tools
- Know what other options there are for data loading (SSIS)
- Know how to attach and detach ODM databases using SQL Server Management Studio and SQL Server Express
- Know how CUAHSI HIS data publication system works
Audience:
- Data managers, researchers and students who are collecting data that they want to share and analyze using HIS
Presenters: David Tarboton, Jeff Horsburgh, Ilya Zaslavsky, Tom Whitenack
Content:
- CUAHSI HIS data publication system (Tarboton)
- Observations data Model (ODM) (Tarboton)
- Using ODM (Horsburgh)
- SQL Management Studio
- ODM Tools
- ODM Data Loader
- Streaming Data Loader
- Controlled vocabulary editing
- SSIS for data loading (Tarboton)
- HIS Central (Zaslavsky)
- Registration of your data service
- Contribute your ODM
Materials:
SESSION 3: 3:30 – 5:00
FUTURE OF CUAHSI HIS
Objectives: To discuss future plans for CUAHSI and the HIS community.
- Outline of plans for further development of CUAHSI HIS
- Standardized metadata catalog and web services to access it
- Digital Watershed development
- Critical Zone Observatory needs
- General discussion about interaction of CUAHSI with other interested organizations
Audience:
Moderator: David Maidment
