Hydroinformatics: Data Integrative Approaches in Computation

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book lays a pedagogical foundation in the concepts underlying developments in hydroinformatics. It begins with an introduction to data representation through unified modeling language (UML), followed by digital libraries, metadata, the basics of data models, and Modelshed, the new hydrological data model. From this platform, the book discusses integrating and managing diverse data in large datasets, data communication issues such as XML and Grid computing, the basic principles of data processing and analysis including feature selection and spatial registration, and modern methods of soft computing such as neural networks and genetic algorithms.