3. Stakeholders have different administrative boundaries
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Provinces
Waterboards
Water Companies
Municipalities
4. The iMOD approach: negotiate with your neighbors
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Waterboards
Water Companies
Municipalities
Since groundwater disregards
administrative boundaries =>
• Build a groundwater model together
with your neighbors and
all other stakeholders in the area
• Negotiate about:
• the input data for the model
• the physical concepts of the model
• the results
5. Scale: EU-, national-, regional-, and local scales …
Large-scale
approach
EU Water Framework Directive
Local laws
Plot scale
detail
National laws
8. So that triggered the development of iMOD…
In 2005 no Graphical User Interface
was available that could
meet all of these requirements:
• Facilitate large stakeholders groups
• Handle very large areas
• High resolution modeling everywhere
• Switch between resolutions
• Deliver performance,
for data handling and visualization
9. iMOD: generate sub-domain models
of any part of the area covered by your data
• Sub-domain
groundwater
models
• Consistent
with larger
courser models
10. iMOD-approach: one expandable data set covering
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iMOD
Area of
interest
. all possible future areas of interest
11. Leaving the era of ‘continuously-restarting-from-zero’ behind