AkvaGIS: An open source tool for water quantity and quality management

[en] AkvaGIS is a novel, free and open source module included in the FREEWAT plugin for QGIS that supplies a standardized and easy-to-use workflow for the storage, management, visualization and analysis of hydrochemical and hydrogeological data. The main application is devised to simplify the characterization of groundwater bodies for the purpose of building rigorous and data-based environmental conceptual models (as required in Europe by the Water Framework Directive). For data-based groundwater management, AkvaGIS can be used to prepare input files for most groundwater flow numerical models in all of the available formats in QGIS. AkvaGIS is applied in the Walloon Region (Belgium) to demonstrate its functionalities. The results support a better understanding of the hydrochemical relationship among aquifers in the region and can be used as a baseline for the development of new analyses, e.g., further delineation of nitrate vulnerable zones and management of the monitoring network to control chemical spatial and temporal evolution. AkvaGIS can be expanded and adapted for further environmental applications as the FREEWAT community grows.

Disciplines :

Earth sciences & physical geography
Geological, petroleum & mining engineering

Author, co-author :

Criollo, Rotman

Velasco, Violeta

Nardi, Albert

Vries, Luis Manuel De

Riera, Celia

Scheiber, Laura

Jurado, Anna

Brouyère, Serge ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo > Hydrogéologie & Géologie de l'environnement

Pujades, Estanislao

Rossetto, Rudy

Vázquez-Suñé, Enric

Language :

English

Title :

AkvaGIS: An open source tool for water quantity and quality management

Publication date :

2019

Journal title :

Computers and Geosciences

ISSN :

0098-3004

eISSN :

1873-7803

Volume :

127

Pages :

123 - 132

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098300417312311

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since 21 April 2019

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