Project Overview

Participatory Terrain Data and Modeling
Deltares
 

This prototype tool enables users to establish a high-resolution terrain dataset with locally collected information on roads, water ways, and buildings stored in OpenStreetMap, enabling urban risk managers to build local models and identify critical hazardous ood areas in Tanzania. 

 

 

Real time urban flood risk management via cellphone network analysis
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
 

This pilot project tested an urban flood protection system that is based on rain measurements from cellular phone networks, which monitors rainfall via loss of network signals to provide a cost-effective, reliable, and sustainable solution for improved risk assessment in Burkina Faso.

Using Twitter data to map flood risk
Floodtags
 

Working with first responders, an online service has been developed in Indonesia that collects data from Twitter, uses natural language processing for analysis, and can be used by first responders following floods to better understand the situation on the ground.

Multilingual and multi-platform films for resilience to risks from volcanic hazards 
University of Bristol
 

To help spread awareness about the behavior of volcanoes and the necessary steps to increase resilience, several multilingual short films have been developed that help communicate both the risk and the proper emergency steps.

Earthquake school safety in Indonesia through mobile application
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization)
 

Under this project, a mobile application using Visual Inspection for defining the Safety Upgrading Strategies (VISUS) has been developed to help inform decisions on where and how to invest available resources efficiently and cost-effectively to maximize resilience in Indonesia.

Providing local risk knowledge to strengthen effective community resilience

GNDR (Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction)

Through consultations of its diverse members, GNDR created an e-learning platform to facilitate the use of risk data gathered on an online dashboard for local action planning and advocacy.
Building resilience to drought in the Sahel through early risk identification

IBIMET (Istituto di Biometeorologia)

To support drought risk reduction and decision-making to build resilience, an open access and open source crop risk monitoring system, 4Crop, has been developed to predict crop failure and risk zones in Niger and Mali.
Online operational natural disaster risk assessment 

iMMAP

This project seeks to provide an online global operational platform that acts as a data repository that can be accessed by all, and can readily feed into other existing data and scenario-based platforms. 
Flying sensors for local, ultra-high resolution flood risk identification

FutureWater

Flying sensors (drones) can provide an affordable, locally-based monitoring of dykes and levees to help local water managers and decision makers identify flood risks to build flood preparedness, spur immediate action in case of flooding, and help recovery efforts after flood events in Mozambique.
Enabling institutions to manage storm surge risks

New York University

Using Typhoon Haiyan as a case study, this project develops products that can be used to improve the design of storm surge warning messages coming from the national weather agency, resulting in a greater awareness of risk at the local and regional levels in the Philippines.
Developing an open source, real time, probabilistic drought risk visualization tool

National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research

Under this project, an open source, real-time probabilistic drought risk visualization toolkit for Pacific Island meteorological services has been developed. The tool provides specific drought information time series, maps, and advisories to help national drought services more effectively trigger response in Samoa, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.

Piloting crowdsourcing enhancement for multi-hazard mobile applications

American Red Cross & Global Disaster Preparedness Center

This multi-hazard mobile application harnesses chained crowdsourcing to build situational awareness on the ground for first responders. The app allows users to report incidents and sends out notifications to nearby users to see if they are experiencing a similar situation. The app is available for free to the public in Indonesia, Myanmar, and the Philippines.

Web map services to improve real-time flood data for African regions


Dartmouth Flood Observatory

This project measures surface water and river discharge throughout Africa in near real-time, and improves data visibility through a newly-developed web mapping service to enable more effective decision making to reduce flood risk.
Open-source mobile weather stations to reduce flood damages and increase preparedness

IWMI (International Water Management Institute)

This project pilots an open source mobile weather station to provide a low-cost, locally manufactured solution to provide reservoir managers with timely information on rainfall and other weather parameters via SMS to reduce flood risk in Sri Lanka.

Integrating local information and users in the global flood awareness system
University of Reading 

To better enable decision-makers to reduce flood risk at the local level, a learning framework was developed for West Africa to explore how probabilistic flood forecasts from the Global Flood Awareness System are used on the ground.

 
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