Vancouver-headquartered firm Aquatic Informatics Inc.has announced that the U.S. Geological Survey, North America’s premier Earth science agency. has officially deployed AQUARIUS Time-Series in 25 of 50 states.
The nationwide rollout program is now 50 percent successfully completed and on schedule to finalize by mid-year.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) investigates the occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution, and movement of surface and underground waters and disseminates the data to the public, State and local governments, public and private utilities, and other Federal agencies involved with managing water resources.
AJ Leitch of Aquatic Informatics, a global leader in providing innovative software solutions for water data management and analysis, commented:
“The USGS has now migrated over 150 years of historical data into AQUARIUS Time-Series. Within months, over 50,000 measurement locations, 16,500 active gauging sites, and 3 million time series nationwide will be managed in one centralized system. These time series represent over 100 billion data points. That is Big Water Data.”
“AQUARIUS Time-Series is already live in 25 states – it is one of the most important tools in use today by the world’s leading water monitoring organizations to produce the highest quality data efficiently and accurately.”
The USGS manages more active real-time gauging sites than any other organization in the Americas – with 16,500 stream, groundwater, and meteorological sites. The agency selected AQUARIUS Time-Series – the USGS collects water data on a very big scale and requires a highly powerful water data management platform to turn massive volumes of continuous water data into timely, accurate, defensible information.
By mid-year, the AQUARIUS platform will add and process over 500,000 data points per hour and publish them to the National Water Information System (NWIS) for public access within 1 minute of transmission.
Leitch added that the AQUARIUS Time-Series is today’s most scalable water data management platform, designed to meet the needs of environmental monitoring organizations of all sizes, from small cities to the world’s largest agencies.
AQUARIUS is the world’s preferred software platform to acquire, process, model, and publish water data. Over 500 organizations in over 50 countries use the highly scalable AQUARIUS platform which provides them with a suite of interoperable applications to manage environmental samples, correct and analyze time series data into actionable information, and publish data for an interactive web experience.
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