Optimisation of Monitoring Networks for Water Systems

This book presents innovative methods to design and evaluate optimum monitoring networks. The performance of water systems is maximised by optimising the information content that can be obtained from monitoring networks. This is done through the combination of models and the concepts of Information Theory and Value of Information and the possibility of using public participation to gather information with mobile phones. The developed methods are tested in two very different case studies: Pijnacker, a typical low-lying regional polder in the Netherlands, which is highly controlled and the Magdalena River, the major river system in Colombia.