The Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) is building the Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS) to deliver high quality water information essential to managing our Nation’s valuable water resources. The system will be spatially enabled using the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (or Geofabric), a spatial framework for discovering, querying, reporting and modelling water information. The Geofabric is a specialised Geographic Information System (GIS) that registers the spatial relationships between important hydrologic features such as rivers, dams, lakes, aquifers, diversions, drains and monitoring points. By detailing the spatial dimensions of these hydrofeatures and how they are connected, we are able to see how water is stored, transported and used through the landscape. Contracted nodes – the enduring nature of the Geofabric is based on a set of points called contracted nodes that represent known features in the landscape such as the confluence of two major rivers. These points have a permanent identifier that will persist through subsequent versions of the Geofabric and will become the framework of the Geofabric through space and time. Each of the ‘contracted node’ features has an associated contracted catchment. Delivery phases – the Geofabric will evolve through phases over the next 10 years. The first version as available in the second half of 2010. Subsequent versions, with enhanced data and functionality, will follow annually. Geofabric Phase …

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