ACQUA: A Conceptual Data Model for Designing and Implementing Databases for Water Resources Management in GIS Environment

Angelo Brayner (1), Joney Rosas Cysne (2)

e-mails: brayner@unifor.br, joney@funceme.br

(1) University of Fortaleza, Department of Computer Science (MIA) Campus da Unifor, Bloco D, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil, 60811-341 Brasil
(2) Federal University of Ceará, Department of Computer Science (MCC) Campus do Pici, Bloco 910, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil, 60455-760 Brasil

Abstract

This paper proposes a conceptual data model, called ACQUA, for representing water resources. The proposed model has the capability of capturing the semantics of geographic phenomena, which are related with water resources, such as reservoirs, rivers, channels, pipelines, lakes and singularities (e.g. waterwithdrawal, waterdischarge, confluence, riverhead and monitoring-station). Using ACQUA it is possible to model the complex water resources network, its physical properties and its spatial information, within a geographic context. The model captures and represents information about an area and may be used as support for urban planning, water-related crisis management (such as, water offer and demand during a dry period) or as a basis for scenario simulation.

Keywords:Conceptual Data Models, Spatial Databases, GIS, Geographic Applications

BibTex

@INPROCEEDINGS{brayner04:68,
                  AUTHOR       = {Angelo Brayner and Joney Rosas Cysne},
                  TITLE        = {ACQUA: A Conceptual Data Model for Designing and Implementing Databases for Water Resources Management in GIS Environment},
                  BOOKTITLE    = {30ma Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (CLEI2004)},
                  YEAR         = {2004},
                  editor       = {Mauricio Solar and David Fernández-Baca and Ernesto Cuadros-Vargas},
                  pages        = {204--213},
                  address      = {},
                  month        = Sep,
                  organization = {Sociedad Peruana de Computación},
                  note         = {ISBN 9972-9876-2-0},
                  file         = {http://clei2004.spc.org.pe/es/html/pdfs/68.pdf}
}

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