FLOREON – System For Flood Prediction

Abstract

The main goal of our system is to provide the end user with information about an approaching disaster. The concept is to ensure information access to adequate data for all potential users, including citizens, local mayors, governments, and specialists, within one system. It is obvious that there is a knowledge gap between the lay user and specialist. Therefore, the system must be able to provide this information in a simple format for the less informed user while providing more complete information with computation adjustment and parameterization options to more qualified users. One system feature in high demand is the ability to display reliable and understandable graphical and textual information. Information for various types of users must be adapted to a desired format which is understandable to a particular group of people. For example, a specialist can ask for all available results from different simulation models in text format. This type of information may be useless, however, to the user who only wants to find out whether or not his house will be flooded. Another important feature is the open structure and modular architecture that enables the usage of different modules. Modules can contain different functions, alternative simulations or additional features. Since the architectural structure is open, modules can be combined in any way to achieve any desired function in the system.

From Global to Local: Providing Actionable Flood Forecast Information in a Cloud‐Based Computing Environment

“…A storm surge forecasting tool has been developed to forecast storm surge in Coastal Mississippi that evaluates "what-if" scenarios using a storm similarity index and synthetic storms in a database (Das et al, 2011). FLOREON (FLOods REcognition on the Net) is a modular system that returns pre-computed results from HecHMS and Mike 11 simulations for emergency flood prediction in a web environment for less informed users involved in emergency management (Vondr ak et al, 2008). Another example of pre-calculations for possible weather scenarios is the virtual flood forecasting developed for watersheds in Slovakia, connecting the experts, the data and computing resources needed in flood management decisions.…”

Visdom Mobile

“…Flood Management FLOREON [Vondrák et al 2008] is a webbased flood-management system, whose goal is to provide users with information about an approaching flood disaster. Given a date and an area, FLOREON computes and visualizes the floodprediction results.…”

New Process Management For Emergency Management: Case Study About An Accident Of A Vehicle Transporting Dangerous Goods

“…Process Management and Business Processes are generally used to solve issues related to EM (Kubíček et al 2010;Sell and Braun 2009;Vondrák 2008). The aim of this paper is to define Process Framework for Emergency Management, which allows more effective and complex process support for EM.…”

“…The designed and redesigned processes can be evaluated and compared during a simulation. The process simulation allows us to detect defects of proposed processes before they are deployed into real working environment (Vondrák et al 2008). The optimized process is automated and deployed on a process engine.…”