Flood maps from satellite data now possible, using Google Earth Engine

16 December 2015

Data from the Mekong basin and Australia In the last years Deltares has been a heavy user of Google Earth Engine. Google Earth Engine eliminates the need to manually download and process satellite data allowing…

Action frameworks for land subsidence

14 December 2015

What measures are feasible and who can I work with? Water scientists, administrators and civil servants working for municipal and provincial authorities discussed the question ‘what measures are you considering as an organisation?’ These measures…

Deltares experts keynote speakers at National Congress on Rivers and Wetlands in Colombia

4 December 2015

CIRMAG, the Research Centre for the River Magdalena, organized this encounter between scientists and stakeholders related to the river. Otto de Keizer explained the Dutch integrated approach to flood risk policy development and the fundamental…

The Deltares-executables of iMOD are now available free-of-charge

26 November 2015

Since mid 2014 iMOD is open source software. Jaap Kwadijk, science director Deltares: “We believe in openness and transparency, as is evident from the free availability of our software and models. It is our firm…

Smart replacement of locks and weirs

18 November 2015

‘This is the first time that these three aspects have been mapped out together,’ says Ida de Groot, an expert on hydraulic structures at Deltares. This is the only way to decide whether it makes…

Vistula river: next steps in the Dutch – Polish collaboration

13 November 2015

About the PiB Water Poland RDH Urbanists Architects, Deltares, Arcadis and Eurolandscape are part of a Dutch-Polish consortium working on the revitalization of the Vistula River from Warsaw to Gdansk. The subject of cooperation is…

Without climate-smart development: 100 million additional people in poverty by 2030

9 November 2015

“Shock Waves: Managing the Impact of Climate Change on Poverty” The report, Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty, finds that poor people are already at high risk from climate-related shocks, including…

Video images make rip currents predictable

4 November 2015

Rip currents, strong seaward currents between breaker bars on the coastline, can be predicted accurately using a computer model in which the bathymetry is determined using video images. That is the conclusion of Leo Sembiring’s doctorate….

Industry can and must work faster to prevent water scarcity

2 November 2015

That is Deltares’ conclusion on the basis of global maps showing groundwater stress and trends in groundwater levels that it produced with Utrecht University for the World Resources Institute (WRI). This information, in combination with…

Logistics and sustainability – cooperation with Brazil

20 October 2015

About 80 representatives from Brazilian and Dutch organisations and companies were present in Vitoria. The head of the Federation of Industries (FINDES), the Dutch ambassador and the Consul-General in Rio de Janeiro attended the meeting…