Introduction to ArtificiaI Intelligence in Higher Education
Nick van de Giesen Water for Food
1. Water for Food
Global Monitoring and Modeling of the
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Terrestrial Hydrological Cycle
Nick van de Giesen
nick@citg.tudelft.nl
Water Management
Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Technical University Delft
2. Water for Food
Challenge
Population: +40%
Agricultural water withdrawals: 70%
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Source: B.Schultz UNESCO-IHE
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Challenge
The Green-Blue Revolution
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will be knowledge intensive and
location specific
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Challenge
Knowledge generation
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Top down
Bottom up
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Challenge
Knowledge generation
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Bottom up
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Challenge
Knowledge generation
Top down
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Source: Minnesota Historical Society, Wikimedia
7. Water for Food
Top down
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Global hydrological model
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Approach
Model
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Ground Remote
Observations Sensing
Global hydrological model
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Model
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Big machine:
100 T flops
Source: Argonne National Laboratory, Wikimedia
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Model
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River runoff,Mm3/yr*pix @ 6’ resolution, PCGLOBWB, Marc Bierkens
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Model
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River runoff,Mm3/yr*pix @ 6’ resolution, PCGLOBWB, Marc Bierkens
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Approach
Model
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Ground Remote
Observations Sensing
Global hydrological model
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Remote sensing
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Prof. Wim Bastiaanssen, eLeaf
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Approach
Model
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Ground Remote
Observations Sensing
Global hydrological model
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Ground observations
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Ground observations
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Ground observations
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Ground observations
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Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory
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Ground observations
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Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory
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Ground observations
20,000 stations
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1 every 35 km
$200 / station
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Ground observations
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Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory
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Ground observations
Rain
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Coen Degen
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Ground observations
Rain
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Coen Degen
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Ground observations
Rain
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Es 8 1010 D7,34
Coen Degen
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Ground observations
One sensor down…
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Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory
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Ground observations
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Crowd sourcing
http://tahmo.info
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Approach (top-down)
Model
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Ground Remote
Observations Sensing
Global hydrological model
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Thank you for your attention!
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Nick van de Giesen
nick@citg.tudelft.nl
Water Management
Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Technical University Delft