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Hydroinformatics Laboratory: Water, climate and the people in between

Water resources

Water that feeds a nation

From irrigation canals to whole river basins, we study how Indonesia shares, stores and protects its water.

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Who we are

Where water science meets the people it serves

The Hydroinformatics Laboratory is a research group at Universitas Gadjah Mada. We work on the full chain from rainfall to river flow to impact: how much water there is, when it becomes dangerous, and who is affected. Our results go into open datasets, tools and papers that agencies and other researchers can use.

  • Field measurements, satellites and models in one workflow
  • Questions that come from Indonesian basins and communities
  • Students trained to publish, share code and think independently
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Research focus

Four themes, one water story

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Hydroinformatics

Remote sensing, spatial data processing and machine learning for hydrology.

Projects

What we are working on

completed

Global crop vulnerability to drought

How crop yields respond to drought at different timescales worldwide, and which factors make some regions more sensitive than others.

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Life in the lab

More than a lab, a second family

Research is better together. We share field days, code, coffee and the occasional deadline panic, and we look after each other along the way.

  • Mentoring, not just supervisionRegular one-to-one time and honest feedback, from the first idea to the final defence.
  • Field days and muddy bootsSurveys on real rivers, with real communities. The data you analyse is data you helped collect.
  • Open science, shared creditCode, data and papers are shared openly, and everyone who contributes is named.
  • Every milestone celebratedA first figure, an accepted paper, a defended thesis: we notice, and we celebrate together.
Lab members during a river field surveyA lecture hall full of students at UGM
S1 · S2 · S3theses supervised in the lab
Open data & tools

Built for everyone to use

Web apps and datasets we build and keep running for Indonesian hydrology.

All data & tools
web app

Indonesian hydrological data atlas

Map and availability dashboard for daily rainfall, climatological and river-flow stations across Indonesian river basins, with gap analysis to plan data requests.

hidro-data.vercel.app
web app

HYDRONESIA

Integrated platform for planning, modelling and monitoring Indonesia's water resources, with data, analysis tools and a knowledge hub.

hidro-id.vercel.app
software

VRain software suite

Design-rainfall toolkit (VRainDownload, VRainPrep, VRainThiessen, VRainStorm, VRainFreq, VRainMaster) for IDF-DDF analysis; its output feeds the VBasin catchment model.

vrain-docs.vercel.app
Latest output

Recent publications

All 17 publications
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