Advancing the Use of Geoinformatics-Based Water Management
摘要
Digital India needs a monetized hydroinfrastructure along with data centers to store geospatial data of both hydro and energy flow in a networked infrastructure with suitable control mechanisms. Sustainable development has to be through an integrated water resources management of surface, ground, soil water, green/blue water, and energy entities available in the river basins. The geospatial knowledge infrastructure data, which is collected in large geographically spread river basins/watersheds, should be continuously stored and shared through data centers in a real-time basis. Industry 5.0 enables the use of cyber-physical systems, cloud service models, and continuum computing required for sustainable management of water. The system of systems models at the watershed scale are easy to develop using existing geospatial data and additional attribute data, for use in assessing environmental health and sustainability aspects. Machine learning-based models in surface water, groundwater, soil water, integrated water vapor, etc. are to be tuned to climate change-based operations of ICT-enabled hydroinfrastructure. The good ground and surface water governance mechanisms can be simulated in computers, and all water related operations can be automated to bring social inclusiveness and equity. Various models using machine learning methods and satellite based spatial data collections available through water geoportals in India are discussed. The necessary risk reduction measures using cybersecurity are discussed as the Geospatial Data Centers are to be secured against cyber threats and intrusions of deep fake geography.