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Managing eFlow data

Summary

There is a perennial problem of data management when planning, reporting and undertaking assessments of environmental watering success within water years. The new version of eFlow Projector makes this a breeze with the data library functionality that imports, manages and automatically connects to water observation systems.

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Author: Zach Marsh

Managing and updating flow data is time consuming

Data preparation is a critical and time-consuming step for environmental water planning. This often requires reporting on past performance or conducing within water year assessments to inform adaptive management. This process requires downloading observed flow data from government water information systems, cleaning the data to fill gaps and uploading the data to a reporting system.

All this manual data handling is time consuming and introduces opportunities for errors and loss of data lineage.

eFlow Projector now includes a data library

The new version of eFlow Projector includes a data library. The data library allows you to create sites (map-based interaction) and upload data (such as modelled flows) or connect to government water information systems. The data library has data validation functionality to detect problems with the data and to infill gaps. Any updated data (via upload or via API connection) gets appended to existing data to have a complete and ongoing record of flow for assessment.

The data library allows you to find data by type or catchment and to explore that data through charts (time series, magnitude frequency) to visually detect anomalies.