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Area of Science:

  • Hydrogeology
  • Geospatial analysis
  • Environmental science

Background:

  • Water-table maps are essential for hydrogeological studies.
  • Manual, hand-drawn methods are still widely used, but their accuracy and variability are understudied.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the accuracy and consistency of hand-drawn water-table maps.
  • To investigate the influence of professional experience on map accuracy.
  • To assess the reliability of hand-drawn maps for inferring groundwater flow directions.

Main Methods:

  • 63 groundwater professionals manually created water-table equipotential contour maps from a shared dataset.
  • Participants inferred flow directions and predicted groundwater elevations.
  • Root mean squared error (RMSE) was used to quantify map calibration accuracy.

Main Results:

  • The average map calibration achieved an RMSE of 10.5 m, comparable to numerical groundwater models.
  • Map accuracy improved with professional experience, with RMSE decreasing from 13.3 m to 9.2 m.
  • While dominant groundwater flow directions were consistently represented, predicting surface water-groundwater interactions showed less consensus.

Conclusions:

  • Hand-drawn water-table mapping is a valid and useful tool, particularly for initial hydrogeological conceptualization.
  • Practitioners integrate spatial data with their cognitive models of hydrogeological processes.
  • Further research is needed to enhance the transparency, repeatability, and reproducibility of hand-drawn mapping methods.