ARC HYDRO GROUNDWATER

Data Model for Managing Hydrogeologic Data

Gil Strassberg Aquaveo
Norm Jones Aquaveo/BYU
David Maidment UT Austin

Background

What is Arc Hydro?

Data models (geodatabase designs):
Best GIS practices in a specific field.
Terminology, common language.
Standard.

Tools surface water, groundwater.

Community user community advances best
practices.

Arc Hydro Data Model

General model for representing water resources, including
surface water components and groundwater components
centered on a common framework
Surface water components
Network
Drainage

Hydrography

Groundwater components
Geology

Arc Hydro
Framework

Channel

Boreholes
Hydrostratigraphy
Simulation

Temporal

Arc Hydro GW Data Model

Framework
WaterPoint
HydroID
HydroCode
Name
JunctionID
FType

Surface water
WaterLine

Aquifer
HydroID
HydroCode
Name
HGUID
FType

Watershed
Waterbody

WaterLine
HydroID
HydroCode
Name
FlowDir
NextDownID
LengthKm
FType

Well
1

Aquifer

Well

WaterBody
HydroID
HydroCode
Name
JunctionID
NextDownID
AreaSqKm
FType
Watershed
HydroID
HydroCode
Name
DrainID
JunctionID
NextDownID
AreaSqKm
FType

HydroID
HydroCode
LandElev
WellDepth
AquiferID
AqCode
HGUID
FType

TimeSeries

Groundwater
VariableDefinition
VarID
VarName
VarDesc
VarUnits
SeriesCatalog
FeatureID
FeatClass
VarID
TsTable
StartTime
EndTime
ValueCount

1
TimeSeries

FeatureID
VarID
TsTime
UTCOffset
UTCOff
ffset
TsValue

Temporal

MonitoringPoint

MonitoringPoint
1 HydroID
HydroCode
Name
JunctionID
FType

Aquifer features
An aquifer is defined by one or a set of polygon features.
Aquifer features can be grouped by HGUID.

Well Features
Wells are defined as a 2D point in the Well feature class.
In the Arc Hydro model we only predefine a set of basic attributes.
Point dataset
Well

Wells in the Edwards Aquifer

HydroID
HydroCode
LandElev
WellDepth
AquiferID
AqCode
HGUID
FType

Aquifers and Wells

Well HydroID = 53

Time Series Views

Well HydroID = 2791

TimeSeries - Tabular structure for storing

time series values indexed by time, location,
and variable.
FeatureID of the time series = HydroID of the
spatial feature (e.g., Well).

Time Series Views

Create view of a variable over a spacetime domain.

January 1991

Raster Series
Raster datasets indexed
ed by time

Each raster represents a continuous

surface describing a variable
ariable for a given
time over an area of interest
nterest

1991
1992
1993

Arc Hydro GW Data Model

Wells and 3D data

3D data is referenced along wells.
From depth (top) To depth (bottom).

From

To

BoreholeLog table
Combining the well geometry (x, y) and the vertical data stored in the
BoreholeLog table we can describe a set of 3D geometries (x, y, z)
750
Upper confining unit
146

Georgetown Fm. (GTWN)

128
41

Cyclic + Marine member (CYMRN)

Leached + collapsed member (LCCLP)

-60
-81

Regional dense member (RGDNS)

Grainstone member (GRNSTN)

-140
Kirschberg evaporite member (KSCH)

-217
Dolomitic member (DOLO)
-372

Lower confining unit, upper Glen Rose (UGLRS)

-433

3D features (BorePoints and BoreLines)

From the tabular data we create 3D features that can be
viewed in ArcScene.

3D Borelines

Arc Hydro GW Data Model

GeoSections

2D Cross Sections (XS2D)

2D Cross Section Editing

Edit cross sections in ArcMap

Borehole data

Outcrop

Salt water interface

Panel divider
Panel

Transform to 3D GeoSection

GeoRasters

GeoVolumes

Simulation Feature Data Set

Simulation Feature Data Set

Cell 3 D

Cell 2 D
HydroID
HydroCode
IJ

HydroID
HydroCode
IJK

CellIndex

Boundary
HydroID
HydroCode
Description
OriginX
OriginY
Angle

*
Node 2 D

HydroID
HydroCode
IJ
1

I
J
K
IJ
IJK

Node 3D
HydroID
HydroCode
IJK

Tools

Subsurface Analyst

Groundwater Analyst

MODFLOW Analyst

Resources
Arc Hydro (surface water):
Arc Hydro GIS for Water Resources (Maidment, 2002).
http://support.esri.com/datamodels

Arc Hydro Groundwater:

Arc Hydro Groundwater GIS for Hydrogeology (Strassberg et al., 2011)
http://www.aquaveo.com/archydro-groundwater
http://www.archydrogw.com

ArcGIS Resource Center:

http://resources.arcgis.com/archydro