Robert Cheethamcheetham@azavea.com

@azavea

@rcheetham

Water Infrastructure BudgetingU.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Spatial Analysis

High Performance Computing

UI/UX Design

R&D

Land

Water

People

Simulation

Modeling

Forecasting

- Performance

- Scalability

- Big data sets

Raster file I/O

Distributed Processing

Targets

National Water Infrastructure

− Health and safety

− Economic growth

− Aquatic ecosystem function

Who is Army Corps IWR?

Lines of Business

Environmental Stewardship

Hydropower

Flood Risk Management

Recreation

Navigation

Water Supply

− Demographic Shifts

− Land use/land cover change

− Climate change

− Shifting economic patterns

− Changing culture

− Limited budgets

21st

Century Challenges

− Data-driven decision-making

− Budget planning

− Many, many factors to consider

− Civil Works Budget transformation

initiative

WISDM

Watershed Infrastructure System Data Manager

Play out geographic impact of

different budget scenarios

WISDM

− Base maps− Civil works projects− Flood risk− Climate change velocity− Coastal risk− Historic disasters− Impervious surface %− Almost 100 factors

WISDM Data

Region and L-o-B

Project Parameters

Project Details

Landscape Factors

Geoprocessing

Project Stats

Geoprocessing-based Budgeting

Very exciting

http://SummerOfMaps.org/

NASA Space AppsChallenge

Summer of Maps

http://azavea.com/jobs

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