Digital Innovation and Hydroinformatics profile
The digital innovation and hydroinformatics profile deals with such novel digital technologies as earth observation, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and computer-based modelling.
Study areas
- Environmental planning and management
- Flood and drought
- Remote sensing and GIS
- Irrigation
- Hydrology and water resources
- Hydraulic engineering
- Surface and groundwater hydrology
- River basin development
The challenges of managing water resources are increasingly being met with the support of novel digital technologies, utilizing existing and new data sources (e.g. Earth Observation and Citizen Science), merging traditional modelling of water systems with new approaches from the field of Artificial Intelligence, all aiming to provide better understanding of related physical processes and to support decision-making.
You will learn optimisation and forecasting, systems analysis and decision support, integrated into hydroinformatics systems that assist water management under uncertainty and global change, in the context of disaster, climate resilience and sustainability.
About the profile
Keywords
Physically based and data driven modelling; Decision support systems applications; Optimisation of water systems; Artificial Intelligence for water systems; Remote sensing; Citizen science and observation; Earth observation; Artificial intelligence; Spatial analysis and GIS; Coding
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