Australian Water Information Dictionary

Water data: National Groundwater Information System

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ANZLIC

Australia New Zealand Land Information Council

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Aquaveo

A software development company based in the United States that builds ArcHydro for groundwater tools.

Related: ArcHydro for groundwater

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ArcGIS

A range of software programs developed by ESRI for spatial data analysis, processing and storage.

Related: Geographic Information System

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ArcHydro for groundwater

A data model published by ESRI and tools developed by Aquaveo for analysis of hydrogeological data.

Related: Aquaveo

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bore

A hole drilled in the ground, a well or any other excavation used to access groundwater. May be used for observation of groundwater (including water level, pressure or quality).

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bore feature

Point feature class that represents the location of a bore and associated attributes. Multiple independently screened bore pipes are regarded as separate bore features.

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bore line

A three dimensional line feature class that represents the hydrogeologic units along a borehole.

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bore log

A table with rock or sediment types classified into hydrogeologic units along a borehole.

Synonym: hydrostratigraphy log

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bore pipe

An independently screened inlet to a bore that can be pumped or monitored separately. A bore can have multiple pipes, each having one or more screens.

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bore screen

The construction component of a bore that allows groundwater to enter e.g. casing with slots or holes.

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Related: construction log

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casing

The construction component that lines a bore and provides the conduit from the water-producing zone to the surface.

Related: construction log

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construction line

A three dimensional line feature class that represents the construction information (e.g. casing and bore screen) along a borehole

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construction log

A table with bore construction information along a borehole (e.g. casing and bore screen).

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Creative Commons

An international non-profit organisation that provides free licences and tools that copyright owners can use to allow others to share, reuse and remix their material, legally.

Source: Creative Commons Australia

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DEM

Digital Elevation Model

A digital elevation model of the earth's surface.

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Digital Elevation Model

A digital elevation model of the earth's surface.

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ESRI

A software development company based in the United States that builds ArcGIS.

Related: ArcGIS

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ESRI File Geodatabase

A format for storing GIS data within the ArcGIS software.

Related: Geographic Information System

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feature class

Homogeneous collections of common features, each having the same spatial representation, such as points, lines, or polygons, and a common set of attribute columns, for example, a line feature class for representing road centrelines. The four most commonly used feature classes in the geodatabase are points, lines, polygons, and annotation (the geodatabase name for map text).

Source: ArcGIS 9.2 Desktop Help

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Geographic Information System

A system used for the design, capture, storage, management and analysis of geographic data. Often referred to as GIS.

Related: Geographic Information System

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georaster

A catalog of raster datasets describing properties of hydrogeologic units (e.g. depth or elevation of hydrogeologic unit's top or base, salinity and groundwater level).

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geovolume

A three dimensional multipatch feature class that represents hydrogeologic units as a volume.

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GIS

Geographic Information System

A system used for the design, capture, storage, management and analysis of geographic data. Often referred to as GIS.

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hydrostratigraphy log

A table with rock or sediment types classified into hydrogeologic units along a borehole.

Synonym: bore log

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lithology log

A table with drillers' or geologists' description of rock or sediment types along a borehole.

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multipatch feature class

A GIS object that stores a collection of patches to represent the boundary of a three dimensional object as a single row in a database.

Source: ArcGIS Help 10.1

Related: feature class

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National Groundwater Information System

A spatially-enabled database for storing and analysing Australian groundwater data.

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NGIS

National Groundwater Information System

A spatially-enabled database for storing and analysing Australian groundwater data.

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raster dataset

Represents geographic features by dividing the world into discrete square or rectangular cells laid out in a grid. Each cell has a value that is used to represent some characteristic of that location.

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