A Spatial Data Infrastructure Approach for the Characterization of New Zealand's Groundwater Systems

I was very happy when I got informed that our latest research article was published in "Transactions in GIS". While being embedded in our New Zealand SMART Aquifer Characterisation programme, it was a great joint effort which results went beyond SMART.

Kmoch, A., Klug, H., Ritchie, A. B. H., Schmidt, J. and White, P. A. (2015), A Spatial Data Infrastructure Approach for the Characterization of New Zealand's Groundwater Systems. Transactions in GIS. doi: 10.1111/tgis.12171

It explains technical and methodological approaches of web groundwater data infrastructure and uses NIWA's CLIDB and GNS's NGMP as examples and describes the long way from stakeholder interaction, workshops and meetings towards an NZ data standard for the National Environmental Monitoring Standards (NEMS) framework - the Environmental Observation Data Profile (EODP) as data access and transfer blueprint for NEMS.

Wiley Online Library "Transactions in GIS" Journal

Alexander Kmoch on ResearchGate.

The technical work with colleagues, collaborators and partners from New Zealand research institutes (CRIs) like GNS, NIWA, Landcare Research, New Zealand regional councils like Horizons and Waikato (WRC), Hawke's Bay (HBRC) and and Bay of Plenty (BOPRC) regional councils which culminated in a draft OGC profile and is being incorporated into national standards in New Zealand, GitHub EODP and are based on the work over the last two years including a great review paper on OGC standards for groundwater,  customising the 52°North SOS server to interchangeably encode WaterML2 time-series data along O&M2 through a Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme, and then customising the SOS server database access to demonstrate it as an adaptor on legacy databases of national significance, in specific an "NGMP/GGW-SOS" and a "CLIDB-SOS" demo through a NZ eResearch programme.