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Technology on tap to measure shrinking water supplies

01.02.2007
As parliamentarians from both sides of the political divide debate ways to deal with Australia's shrinking water resources, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) researchers have been busy developing high-tech solutions to make sense of the looming crisis.

The technology was showcased at an event organized to show how spatial information can address a diverse range of community problems.

In this particular case, the scenario was a mock terrorist incident in the United States, but the technology is equally applicable to monitoring water resources.

The agency's ICT center manager Gavin Walker said the demonstration improved a set of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications to provide access to multiple sources of geospatial information for decision making.

CSIRO is a member of the OGC, which also includes the world's leading spatial data organizations, and has been a key participant in the development of OGC's Sensor Web Enablement technology.

OGC specifications improve the interoperable geospatial capability of the Web, wireless and location-based services, and mainstream information technology.