A web based DSS for the management of floods and wildfires (FLIRE) in urban and periurban areas

Kochilakis, Giorgos; Poursanidis, Dimitris; Chrysoulakis, Nektarios; Varella, Vassiliki; Kotroni, Vassiliki; Eftychidis, Giorgos; Lagouvardos, K.; Papathanasiou, Chrysoula; Karavokyros, George; Aivazoglou, Maria; Makropoulos, Christos; Mimikou, Maria

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.09.016

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“…The web application may evolve to a more powerful tool that attends to users' needs and expectations in supporting evidence-based decision making. Examples of similar tools are the Iowa Flood Information System (Demir and Krajewski, 2013) that provides access to flood maps and other flood-related information using an interactive interface or the FLIRE DSS (Kochilakis et al, 2016)…”

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A web application for hydrogeomorphic flood hazard mapping

Costa

Manfreda

Luzzi

et al. 2019

Environmental Modelling & Software

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A detailed delineation of flood-prone areas over large regions represents a challenge that cannot be easily solved with today's resources. The main limitations lie in algorithms and hardware, but also costs, scarcity and sparsity of data and our incomplete knowledge of how inundation events occur in different river floodplains. We showcase the implementation of a data-driven web application for regional analyses and detailed (i.e., tens of meters) mapping of floodplains, based on (a) the synthesis of hydrogeomorphic features into a morphological descriptor and (b) its classification to delineate flood-prone areas. We analysed the skill of the descriptor and the performance of the mapping method for European rivers. The web application can be effectively used for delineating flood-prone areas, reproducing the reference flood maps with a classification skill of 88.59% for the 270 major river basins analysed across Europe and 84.23% for the 64 sub-catchments of the Po River.

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A web application for hydrogeomorphic flood hazard mapping

Costa

Manfreda

Luzzi

et al. 2019

Environmental Modelling & Software

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“…The Flood Disaster Management System (FDMS) seeks to provide disaster reduction capabilities that cover the entire flood management chain; modular design and the use of ontologies are notable technical features of this platform (Qiu, Du, Zhu, & Fan, 2017). FLIRE is a web-based Decision Support System (DSS) that combines both fire and flood risk management (Kochilakis et al, 2016). In the specific case of the flooding domain, Teng et al (2017) review the state-of-the-art in flood inundation modelling; Jain et al (2018) present a review of flood forecasting techniques.…”

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Supporting participative pre‐flood risk reduction in a UNESCO biosphere

O’Grady

Evans

Eigbogba

et al. 2019

J Flood Risk Management

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Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) has become the predominant strategy for pre‐emptively countering the havoc threatened by natural hazards, complementing traditional disaster management, and recovery activities. An important component of DRR activities is community involvement, imbuing the community with a sense of ownership of the risk reduction process, and thus increasing resilience to deal with natural hazards. Though the desirability for community engagement is acknowledged, the differing hazards, environments and community contexts, all pose many obstacles to enabling meaningful participation. This paper describes a participative, community‐oriented initiative for DRR in a context of the most common hazard faced by communities worldwide, that of flooding. A novel platform is presented which embraces participatory science principles in facilitating active community engagement in all stages of the flooding lifecycle. It is demonstrated how observations contributed by a community can contribute both to the practical mitigation of the effects of flooding and the calibration of inundation models. The novelty of the platform lies in its emphasis on mitigation activities during the pre‐flood stage, as well as its innovative use of image capture for enabling the safe assessment of water levels by the community.

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“…Thus, the GIS database is best described as a decision support system that may allow us to make optimal decisions as to where to drill a manual borehole. By definition, a decision support system is a computer-based information system that can be used to underpin business or organizational decision-making [43]. Decision support systems have the ability to integrate diverse aspects of the planning process, and may take into account the spatial dimension.…”

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Mapping the Viability, Time, and Cost of Manual Borehole Drilling in Developing Regions

Martínez‐Santos

Martín-Loeches

Solera

et al. 2017

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While access to water remains an issue in arid and semiarid regions across the world, aquifers have the potential to help millions of people out of poverty by providing a reliable source of drinking and irrigation water. Manual boreholes are increasingly advocated as a safe and cost-effective substitute to mechanized drilling, as well as to traditional excavation methods. This research banks on the assumption that field and remote sensing data can be integrated within a geospatial database in order to map the viability of manual boreholes based on factors such as rock type, water table depth, landforms, or water quality. The approach presents three main novelties in relation to methodological precedents: (1) outcomes are not only expressed in terms of technical feasibility, but also as a function of drilling time and cost; (2) maps refer to a specific drilling technique; and (3) results take into account borehole diameter, as this constrains both drilling time and cost. The method provides univocal outcomes that can be immediately useful for non-experts, donors, planners, or practitioners and that can be readily exported to other catchment-scale settings. Results were validated against geophysical data.

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A web based DSS for the management of floods and wildfires (FLIRE) in urban and periurban areas

Cited by 23 publications

References 6 publications

A web application for hydrogeomorphic flood hazard mapping

A web application for hydrogeomorphic flood hazard mapping

Supporting participative pre‐flood risk reduction in a UNESCO biosphere

Mapping the Viability, Time, and Cost of Manual Borehole Drilling in Developing Regions

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