INTRODUCTION > What is waterRIDE?

waterRIDE™ is a highly visual, purpose-built floodplain management tool designed to allow users to leverage their available flooding datasets. It enables users to readily visualise, interrogate, analyse and process the outputs of flood models, without needing to be a flood modeller.

Through integration of the flooding datasets with organisation-specific spatial information, waterRIDE™ presents as a unique tool to help users understand not only what the extent of flooding is, but what the implications of flooding could be (eg properties affected, assets impacted, roads affected, planning restrictions and management processes etc).

Sitting alongside conventional GIS platforms, waterRIDE™ facilitates dynamic interrogation of a range of datasets, including:

•Flood model outputs (including access to the full time series of flood behaviour) including:

- 1D

- 2D

- 3D

- Pipe network flows

▪Gauge-based datasets:

- rainfall

- levels (recorded + modelled)

- flows (recored + modelled)

▪Forecast rainfall grids (BoM, WeatherZone, MetService)

▪Raster/Vector GIS (file or database-based)

▪Aerial Imagery (local and/or internet based datasets)

▪Linkable contextual datasets (eg photos, reports, movies, spreadsheets, documents, web pages etc)

Datasets are accessed via waterRIDE™ projects (*.vmmap files). As the project files only point to various data layers, these layers are always read "live" when they are accessed within waterRIDE™.

waterRIDE™ is a tool for anyone needing to access and interrogate flooding information, regardless of their technical background. This makes it the ultimate floodplain management tool.