Organisations operating their own monitoring sites are often challenged by the volume of data and the requirement to guarantee or even improve the quality over time. This is particularly relevant where datasets may be used to make critical decisions or in cases of potential litigation.
With continuous water level, flow or rainfall records it is often the metadata (information about the data record) that is critical to overall data quality. In the rush to collect and analyse the data this critical activity is often overlooked or given lesser priority.
With over twenty years of operational and data management experience, including the development of commercial hydrometric data management software, Hydro-Logic are uniquely placed to advise on, or deliver, data management, processing and quality assurance services for organisations in the water environment sector.
The staff involved in providing our data management services use industry standard software packages in combination with our in-house specialist hydrological data management software tools including: Hydrolog4, Gauger2, Timeview, Ratman and a suite of Uncertainty Analysis tools.
Projects involving data processing, management and quality assurance that we have undertaken include:
- Review of hydrometric best practice
- Review of stage discharge relationships
- Review of rainfall data and rainfall validation
- Hydrometric data storage and archive review
- Processing and QA of historical paper-based records.
