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A watershed data management and visualization system using code-first approach

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With rapid growth of population and economic development in northwest China, water resource over-exploitation has led to severe deterioration of watershed ecosystems. In this study, we developed a hydrological information platform (called Watershed Datacenter System) for sharing, managing, analyzing and visualizing a diverse range of hydrologic data collected at watershed scale. This platform can help investigators and geotechnical experts to conduct watershed researches with the intensive data convenience. This Watershed Datacenter system (WDC) is developed with Entity Framework 6 (EF6) approach which based on Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture pattern and several other useful technologies, such as ArcGIS API and Responsive web design. Observation Database Model (ODM), hydrological model as a service, Web services and time-series analysis tools are seamlessly integrated into our WDC with the help of open source HIS (Hydrologic Information System) from the CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc.). The results demonstrate that the WDC offers quite a few advantageous features for managing and analyzing of the data for watershed research.

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Acknowledgements

The data of this study is come from WestDC (http://westdc.westgis.ac.cn/). In addition, thanks to Lu Chen who finished this part of work about Geoprocessing Service and thanks to Prof. Yanyun Nian who gave us some useful materials about CUAHSI. This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61402210 and 60973137, Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University under Grant No. NCET-12-0250, “Strategic Priority Research Program” of the Chinese Academy of Sciences with Grant No. XDA03030100, Gansu Sci.&Tech. Program under Grant No. 1104GKCA049, 1204GKCA061 and 1304GKCA018. The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No. lzujbky-2014-49, lzujbky-2013-k05, lzujbky-2013-43, lzujbky-2013-44 and lzujbky-2012-44, Gansu Telecom Cuiying Research Fund under Grant No. lzudxcy-2013-4, Google Research Awards and Google Faculty Award, China.

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  1. School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China

    Yan Li, Rui Gao, Chong Chen & Qingguo Zhou

  2. Department of Information Technology, Lanzhou Resources & Environment Voc-Tech College, Lanzhou, Gansu, 730021, People’s Republic of China

    Xiaobin Kang

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Li, Y., Gao, R., Kang, X. et al. A watershed data management and visualization system using code-first approach. Multimed Tools Appl 76, 18221–18235 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-016-3613-x

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