An innovative long-term programme which, for the first time in the UK, joins up monitoring the whole hydrological system, to improve resilience to floods and droughts. Epimorphics is providing technical expertise in data technology to UK CEH in support of the FDRI programme.

Client: The UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)

Our Role: Data Architecture, API design, modelling consultancy, data publishing, app development

Site: https://www.ceh.ac.uk/our-science/projects/floods-and-droughts-research-infrastructure-fdri and https://fdri.org.uk/

The creation, improvement and innovation of digital systems are a key part of the FDRI project. The FDRI digital team have been hard at work creating cloud services, conceiving new approaches, sharing knowledge with the community and more.

Metadata about FDRI sensors will be important to help users of the data find and make use of FDRI datasets. To enable rich descriptions of FDRI datasets the FDRI team have been working with linked data experts Epimorphics to develop an approach, based on existing open standards, to describe the detail of FDRI measurements, from monitoring networks and sites, sensors and their makes and models, the accuracy and calibration history of those sensors, through to the programs used to process the data.