Global Innovation Hub

Global Innovation Hub strengthens fit-for-purpose and sustainable monitoring capabilities through innovation. Key innovation areas:

HYDROMETRY: Fosters the operational uptake of innovative technologies and emerging monitoring schemes, such as crowd sourcing, to provide cost-effective monitoring solutions.

DATA MANAGEMENT: Develops pragmatic solutions to introduce new technologies and paradigms into the operational routines of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) and other stakeholders, in order to widen the reach of hydrological data and services.

MANAGEMENT PROCESSES: Support good management practices by providing case studies, guidance material, templates for recurring administrative tasks and other knowledge products, with the aim to increase the flexibility of business processes.

Innovation Calls, Camps and Workshops

Each year, WMO HydroHub launches an Innovation Call inviting individuals and businesses to submit new sustainable solutions that can be up-scaled around the world. We will support you to operationalise your solution and give your approach visibility in the WMO community and partners network.

New Case Studies on innovation activities

Development of a rainfall and stream water level quality control subsystem for Belize CDMS
Lidar-based non-contact hydrometry for Mountainous Terrain
Open source non-contact river flow observations with cameras for Africa
Inexpensive open source data loggers and sensors for water levels and hydrologic measurements in least developed countries

Accessible here

Highlights of the First and Second WMO HydroHub Innovation Calls

The projects of the First and Second WMO HydroHub Innovation Calls have now been implemented. We are happy to share the main highlights and achievements of the projects.

International Surface Velocimetry Workshop

4-6 May 2021, The University of Hull (UK)

The three-day theoretical and technical workshop will address non-contact surface velocity methods for determination of river and floodplain flows.

Workshop on "Innovations in Non-contact Hydrometry"

23 April 2021, 14:00 - 16:30, Online

The objectives of the workshop are to introduce the science behind recent advances in non-contact water level measurement and help the practitioners to make a knowledgeable choice between non-contact technologies for hydrometry.

Winners of the Second WMO HydroHub Innovation Call

The selection process for the Second WMO HydroHub Innovation Call has just concluded. We are happy to announce that 3 companies have been offered contracts to implement projects in the next six months.

WMO HydroHub Second Innovation Call

Submission Deadline: Closed

WMO is seeking proposals for projects that will advance the use of innovative measurement approaches and technologies in operational hydrometry.

The Terms of Reference (ToRs) are available here.

Call for Challenges "AI for Operational Hydrology"

Submission Deadline: Closed

The WMO HydroHub is looking for the Hydrology Community to define challenges around the topic of "Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Operational Hydrology", to which students and young scientists can submit solutions.

Winner selected in the First WMO HydroHub Innovation Call

We are happy to have received 15 applications from 8 countries. The topics proposed by applicants were diverse and targeted over 12 countries. All proposals were thoroughly evaluated by our internal and external experts, and a winner was selected.

2019 MOXXI, WMO HydroHub, CandHy and CUAHSI Joint Workshop "Innovation in Hydrometry: Overcoming Barriers to Operationalization"

The conference brought together researchers, users, and instrumentation developers to discuss how to overcome barriers to the advancement of hydrological observations and to improve operational uptake of innovative hydrometry technologies and monitoring approaches.

First WMO HydroHub Innovation Call: Innovation for Operational Hydrology

Submission Deadline: Closed

This is the first of a series of calls for innovation, where WMO HydroHub is looking for innovative solutions in operational hydrology.

2017 IAHS-MOXXI and WMO HydroHub Joint Workshop "Innovation in Hydrometry - from ideas to operation"

The MOXXI working group of IAHS and the WMO HydroHub jointly organized the two half-day workshop to bring members of the science and operations communities together to learn from each other about new technologies and current research in the area of hydrometry and start a dialog on how to foster uptake of innovative solutions in operational environments.