Software Benefits
for Water Quality Management.
High Level Analysis
for Best Water Quality.

WISKI

Water Resources Management

Water management tasks

Government agencies and water management companies face complex tasks in the wake of the amended legal conditions. Water quality data on all bodies of water must be collected, managed and evaluated, and both qualitative and quantitative data must be combined in the data analysis to provide a meaningful data set. The actual quality of bodies of water can only be adequately assessed on the basis of this complex data. Finally, the collected data and analysis results must be presentable as graphs in order to present findings to the general public.

Features of the water quality module

The Water Quality Module (WQM) was added to the WISKI water management information system in order to measure up to an integrative approach capable of handling the variety of tasks at hand. The module allows expert users to organise and directly link water quality data and hydrological information (e.g. for load calculations) in a relational database. This has made the combination of qualitative and quantitative data on bodies of water possible.

Data import from Excel and LIMS

Sample data can be imported both automatically and manually. Import comprises not only measured and analytical values, but also verbal descriptions of the sample. Automatic import is carried out through a highly configurable importer. This tool allows the import of files created in spreadsheet programs, the standard format for sample data. An XML interface supports automatic imports of sample data from Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS).

Configuring measured data

WISKI also supports the definition of measurement programs as well as substance and comparison lists, based on which sample data can be evaluated efficiently. Water quality measurement stations are assigned to these measurement programs, which in turn appear in the WISKI Explorer in display mode. Display mode provides access to the sample data, e.g. all descriptive, measured, or analysed data of a sample at each station. Extensive WISKI tools are available for evaluations in graph and table format.
The Water Quality Module additionally represents the basis for spatial data evaluation, for example through the generation of water quality maps via the WISKI ArcGIS extension.