DIGITAL DELTA & Data Science

Raymond Feron

Program director

PPP

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1953 The Netherlands

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Delta Works 1.0

• Brick & Mortar

• Binary

• Single Purpose

Flood safety

Fresh water availability

More crop per drop

Logistics (Harbor Rotterdam

supplies 75% of Western

Europe within 2 days)

Ecology

Energy efficiency

Adaptive

Affordable

Optimizaton needed

>100 initiatives

Dutch Water

Management annual

cost: € 7 billion

30-60% of budgets spend on:

• Finding data

• Getting Access

• Validating quality

• Duplication of IT tools

Current situation

While saving costs and driving innovation

From To

Watersystem

Very well managed Under climate change pressure

Complex Interconnected with other functions

Hoofdwegennet Hoofdvaarwegennet Hoofdwatersysteem

National infrastructure Rijkswaterstaat

Watermanagementcentrum NL 9 20 mei 2014

Verkeerscentrum

Nederland (VCNL)

Scheepvaart-

verkeerscentrum (SVC)

Watermanagementcentrum

Nederland (WMCN)

Delfland regional waterboard

Covers cities of Rotterdam,

the Hague and Delft

Responsible for surface water

levels, quality and....

“The recently launched “Digital Delta Initiative” is a

step in the right direction. This innovative programme

aims to harness and collate vast and currently

dispersed datasets to support better management of

flood control and water resources in the country

(Box 4.12).”

Finalist in various awards:

without DD

with DD

www.digitaledelta.nl

1. Show the potential for substantially lowering

the cost for managing water in all its aspects

2. Facilitate reuse of data and services:

Develop Once, Reuse Often

3. Data ownership and quality control

stay at the source

4. Focus on Enabling Services,

not Applications

5. No vendor lock-in

and no lock-out

KEEP IT SIMPLE

Design principles

Findings research 1. Digital Delta has both technical and social

and organization cultural challenges

2. Digital Delta needs

critical mass

3. Move standards

to the users

4. Business case driven

implementation, not just open

data for open data sake

5. Knowlegde sector can

shorten development time

by digital delta infrastructure

6. Infrastructure dilemma:

Government initiative in

startup-phase is needed

The solution…

Perspectives

Innovation

& export

Government

facilitates the

fundament

Private Sector

Platformen o.a. FEWS, HYDRONET,

LIZARD, IOW, AGT,ESRI……

Kennis sector

Deltares Imares TUDelft

etc

Andere sectoren Geo information

Publieke Sector

Water Data Distributie

Informatiehuis Water Informatiehuis Marien

Smart Analytics Big Data E-commerce, B2B

De Burger Droge voeten

Schoon en voldoende water Betrouwbare informatie

Hydro Models

Imagine all the waterdata of The Netherlands is readily available for everybody ……….

• Geo-information: provides the necessary structure

• Automated survey networks: the data-fundament

• New sensors, internet of things: a lot of data

• Real time hydromodels : much more data

• Social media more & more & more

unstructured data

DD & big data

Simulation

Data retrieval / coupling

Find available data &

connect computing engine

with online data

DD & Next generation hydro model

New sensors

Water safety & crisis response • Citizens understand why to leave

• Decisions pinpointed at the right time and the right location

• Spatial planning

3Di: act data

100x quicker

100x more detail

Spatially realistic

When & how

Where & what

Risk awareness (instead of 100% safe)

Multi layer Safety approach

• Watermanagement is changing drastically

– Operations, local, regional, national, international.

• Citizens are new “sensors” & well informed

• Models need & create huge amounts of new data

• Exponential data growth in addition to traditional sources: new challenge for government:

– SMART government: integration, validation and analysis

Data Analytics

To conclude

data services

Scaling up

# of disciplines &

themes

# of (inter) national partners

# of data sources &

functionality

Thank You

www.digitaledelta.nl