Roadmap

General VVG project roadmap is as follows:

1. Establish the research basis for the VVG project by:

• extending the project into new and innovative areas where possible
• publishing (preferably in peer-reviewed international journals)
• collaborating with partners on research and papers:
• applying for research funding
• encouraging postgraduate student involvement

2. Get the bore coverage for the entire State on-line in the first 6 months

• convert DSE's GMS to MySQL, map the fields to the current view and get it online
• convert DPI's GEDIS to MySQL, map the fields to the current view and get it online
• convert DPI's FFSR salinity database to MySQL, map the fields to the current view and get it online
• include UB Spatial bores not held in the above databases

3. Enhance the bore data (second 6 months)

• DSE GMS data cleaning and establish the protocols for cleaned data handling via DSE
• digitise the boring records and attach the digitised records to the bores
• add stratigraphy where possible (especially from Honours and Postgrad theses)
• map stratigraphy to hydrostratigraphy (Victorian aquifer framework)
• develop metadata information

4. Benchmark current productivity (year 1)

• contact partners to solicit their involvement
• design and implement web-survey
• follow-up interviews

5. Improve look and feel of the VVG portal (years 1 & 2)

• graphic design of the web-pages and their layout
• improve menu selection
• improve legend design
• improve speed
• include more background information
• develop help files
• include feedback opportunity

6. Implement interoperability (years 1 & 2)

• mapping of groundwater data to OGC standards
• demonstrate two-way true interoperability
• work with NR Canada to expand data vocabulary

7. Improve broadband service (years 1 & 2)

• work with UB to establish large pipe broadband service

8. Expand data sets (year 1 & 2)

• include Mineral Springs data
• include springs data
• include SRW 3D model surfaces
• include DSE 3D model surfaces
• include DEM surface
• enhance background imagery
• explore the inclusion of Satellite imagery (e.g. MODIS?)
• explore the inclusion of EPA and MW data

9. Improve graphical displays (year 2)

• display water chemistry as:
  • milliequivalent pie charts
  • Piper plots
  • stiff diagrams
  • Durov plots
• automate graphical logs for:
  • lithology
  • stratigraphy
  • hydrostratigraphy

10. Develop visualisation and interpolation models (year 2)

• time-series animations
• depth to groundwater
• cross-sections and fence diagrams
• simple 3D bore plots (bores hanging below a surface)
• complex 3D models (voxel models of aquifers)
• 3D fly throughs

11. Include telemetered data (year 2)

• set up telemetered waterlevel loggers
• set up automatic polling of loggers and inclusion of data in bore database

12. Hand-held mobility (year 2)

• develop in-field data entry
• develop applications for hand-held access to VVG data