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Network
of Excellence
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CARiMan
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The
Internet Portal for Computer Aided Risk Management
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Responsible: CIMNE
Assistance: EURO,
UNS,
PRO, LNEC, IPA, NOM, USMB, all
partners
The objective of this line is to develop and validate a
new decision support system (DSS) for the risk assessment and management of
emergency scenarios due to severe floods. The DSS will combine environmental
and geo-physical data from earth observation, satellite positioning systems, in-situ
sensors and geo-referenced information with advanced computer simulation and
graphical visualisation methods for generating knowledge contributing to the
risk and damage assessment prevention of floods and the design of effective
response actions maximising the safety of infrastructures and human life.
Particularly, management of reservoirs during a flood
has an important role in flood routing and in the risk of dam break, which may
significantly increase water flow downstream of the dam. This effect will be
included in CARiMan, with the objectives of defining reservoir management
criteria to minimize risk and, if overtopping is unavoidable, to evaluate
the dam fail risk and the breakwave that will be generated
Pre-standardisation activities leading to harmonised
models for capturing and filtering the necessary environmental data,
the functionalities of the flood computer simulation and visualisation tools
and the general architecture of the new decision-support system will also be a
relevant part of the project work. Additional tasks will focus on the definition
of a consistent approach for the design and management of flood prevention
scenarios including the definition of adequate emergency policies.
Following the successful development of the new DSS, a
crucial activity of the project will be the in-depth calibration, validation and
assessment of the performance, scalability and effectiveness of the DSS in its
application to a number of risk flash floodplain scenarios in different european
sites.
The structure of the DSS will be built such that, after
the adequate calibration of the decision support module, it can be effectively
applied to any flood scenario. This is an essential aspect for the success of
the future exploitation of the system at the European and world wide levels.