Overview | waterRIDE™ FLOOD Manager | FLOOD Forecasting |

The waterRIDE™ environment provides the emergency manager with a host of tools to assist in managing a flooding emergency, both during the event and in a planning context.

 

The tools are designed to make necessary flooding and hydraulic information readily available to the flood manager, in an easy to use interface. This ensures that the manager has a system that they can rely on during the high pressure situation of managing a flood emergency.

 

The unique ability of waterRIDE™ to integrate time varying model results in a purpose built GIS environment provides the flood manager with crucial time based information (such as time available to evacuate), a feature not found in conventional GIS packages.

Some of the sophisticated ways in which flood emergency managers are using waterRIDE™ FLOOD Manager include (for further details, please refer to the waterRIDE™ FLOOD Manager pages):

Emergency Response Tools

• Time-based Queries - provide a firm understanding of evacuation issues by deriving time based information such as time available for evacuation (time to inundation), duration of inundation, and rates of rise.

 

• Parameter Queries - identify areas where velocity and depth exceed safe criteria

• Evacuation Planning- interactive animation of your model results in a live GIS environment allow you to visualise and interrogate how your floods develop over time, providing essential information for evacuation phasing and planning.

• Flood Forecasting - rapidly interpolate a predicted peak flood surface from a predicted level at a gauge (or multiple gauges). See what a predicted flood will look like and use the predicted surface for planning and management. Flood Forecasting.

• GIS Integration - automatically integrate GIS Datasets with the model results to show derived information such as depth above evacuation routes or depths above critical infrastructure.

• Flood Extents - extract GIS flood extents for rapid determination of properties at risk during a flood event.

• Property Photos - integrate flood levels with scaled property photos to provide a realistic representation of flooding at an individual property and greatly enhance community flood awareness and understanding

• Rate of Rise - interrogate the rate of rise at any location in the model

Please refer to the waterRIDE™ FLOOD Manager pages for further information.

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