Rivers Data Centre

The Rivers Data Centre

The Rivers Data Centre was responsible for the assembly of chemical flux data both from within the LOIS Programme and from external suppliers. Datasets included:

water quality data,
water quantity data,
consent to discharge data,
abstraction licences,
biological data.

In addition to these, various other associated datasets were acquired including:

the river network,
the IH digital terrain model,
soil type data.

For a full listing, see LOIS Datasets.

The Rivers Data Centre used WIS, an Environmental Information System, to store and manage the data. It has a geographical user interface, and allows the user to record the history of any object, or feature, as it moves through space and time.

WIS's ability to handle such a wide range of data types lies in its conceptual data model, a three dimensional array of cells in the form of a cube whose axes represent objects (features), properties (attributes) and time or 'what', 'where' and 'when'.

The WIS Cube