Presentation @ ISCRAM 2014

AGORA-GeoDash: A Geosensor Dashboard for Real-time Flood Risk Monitoring

Flávio E. A. Horita

Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC) – University of São Paulo (USP) - Brazil

[email protected]

http://www.agora.icmc.usp.br | http://www.flaviohorita.com

Agenda

• Background

• Digital Dashboards

• Research Problem

• AGORA-GeoDash

• Deployment

• Evaluation

• Conclusion

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Background

• Disasters in Brazil

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Duque de Caxias/Rio de Janeiro on Jan, 2013

Background


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Porto Velho/Rondônia on Fev, 2014

Background

• Disaster in Brazil

5 Flood in São Carlos/São Paulo on Oct 22, 2013

2h20min – 105mm

Background


6 EM-DAT – The International Disaster Database

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2001-2010

2011-2013

Flood

Drought

Storms

Landslide

Background

• Numbers of floods in Brazil

7 Report 2013 of Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE)

Communities Affected

5.570 cities

1.543 affected

Background




5.570 cities

1.543 affected

Background




5.570 cities

1.543 affected

Digital Dashboards

• Most important management information needed to support strategic activities (Few, 2006;

Liang and Miranda, 2001)

• Single Screen

• Performance Indicators

• User-friendly

• Drill-down function (Vasiliu, 2006)

• Decision-making faster

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Digital Dashboards

• Digital Dashboards

11 http://www.theomegagroup.com/fire/omega_dashboard_fire.html

Research Problem

• Brazil faces a lot of structural problems:

– Traditional performance indicators are not sufficient

– Real-time information is not easily available

– There is not a standard to connect the information system available

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Research Problem

• Main research question

How to support the real-time decision-making in flood situations through the rivers monitoring?

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AGORA-GeoDash

• Processes real-time information

• Enables the interoperability among other information systems (OGC standards)

• Provides performance indicators essentials for flood risk monitoring

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AGORA-GeoDash

• Layer Structure

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AGORA-GeoDash

• The Geosensor Dashboard

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AGORA-GeoDash

• The Hazard Index

– Uses depth and water velocity to identify if an adult can be dragged by the water (Rotava et al., 2013)

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Deployment

• Deployment context

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Deployment


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• Wireless Sensor Network with three sensors using ZigBee for the Data Source Layer

• Communication among sensors and base station via JSON

Deployment


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• The Service layer uses JSP to process and PostGIS to storage the data provided by the previous layer.

• The communication with the Visualization Layer uses SOS Specification specifically the 52 north framework (Jirka et al., 2012).

PostGIS

Deployment


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• Geosensor Dashboard • The Visualization Layer

uses ExtJS with OpenLayers framework to handle the geographic data and integrate with OGC services.

Evaluation

• Flood event on Oct 22-23, 2013

– 2h20m of rain with an amount of 105mm (all Dec)

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Evaluation

• Rainfall on Nov 4, 2013

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Conclusion

• Real-time information is essential

• The AGORA-GeoDash presents itself as an important approach to support decision-making

• Hazard Index is an important performance indicator to aid in flood situations

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Future Work

• Improve the dashboard with other performance indicators

• Integrate Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) with other sources to provide real-time information (Degrossi & Albuquerque, 2014)

• Interface and usability analysis

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Flávio E. A. Horita1, Maria C. Fava2, Jairo Rotava2, Eduardo M. Mendiondo2, Vladimir C. Souza3, Jó Ueyama1, and João Porto de Albuquerque1

1Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC/USP), 2Department of Hydraulic (DHS/USP), 3Center for Technology (CTEC/UFAL)


Flávio E. A. Horita

Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science (ICMC) – University of São Paulo (USP) - Brazil

[email protected]

http://www.agora.icmc.usp.br | http://www.flaviohorita.com

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