Connotation and framework of digital river basin

According to the current situation of researches on digital river basin,the connotation and framework of the digital river basin were discussed based on the fundamental content of a river basin.The content,function,criteria and standards as well as the construction techniques of the digital river basin were addressed.The storage and management of multiple massive data and the basic algorithms to extract the data characteristics were the core to the digital river basin.The data input strategy and service platform was the main component of the digital river basin.A conclusion is drawn that the project of the digital river basin is integrated by the digital river basin with the individual data of a basin,the instruments of the data acquisition and transmission,and the applied models and systems.