Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric)

The Bureau of Meteorology is building the Australian Water Resources Information System (AWRIS) to deliver high quality water information essential to managing Australia’s valuable water resources. AWRIS will be spatially enabled using the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (or Geofabric), a spatial framework for discovering, querying, reporting and modelling water information.

The Geofabric is a specialised Geographic Information System (GIS) that registers the spatial relationships between important hydrologic features such as rivers, dams, lakes, aquifers, diversions, drains and monitoring points. By detailing the spatial dimensions of these hydrofeatures and how they are connected, we are able to see how water is stored, transported and used through the landscape.

To find out more visit the Bureau of Meteorology Geofabric page.