The USGS Trusts AQUARIUSThe USGS chose AQUARIUS as its primary platform for use by 3000 employees of the Water Resources Division to manage water time series data nationally. In addition to increasing operational efficiencies, the USGS was looking to centralize all hydrological data management activities performed nationwide onto one platform to optimize internal consistency, data comparability, and reliability. USGS Rating Curves Have Been Built in AQUARIUS Since 2005The USGS has trusted the customized AQUARIUS Graphical Rating and Shift Application Tool (GRSAT) since 2005. It relies on AQUARIUS to correct and edit time series data and to build accurate and defensible rating curves across all 50 USGS Water Science Centers. The USGS has said that they are saving over 59,000 hours per year by using AQUARIUS GRSAT. According to the USGS, “Use of GRSAT over the past year has shown that about 8 hours of labor are saved on average each year per streamgage—a significant cost savings when applied to the national network of approximately 7,400 gages.”(USGS Fact Sheet 2007). |
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