Regional flood early warning system

Abstract

Natural disasters have occurred for a very long time, virtually on all continents, and it is obvious that in the areas where human’s social, economic and cultural activities are concentrated, their impacts are more severe. The Laboratory for Modelling and Simulations of Hazardous Situations, operating at the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, works on a long-term basis on a project called FLOods REcognition On the Net (FLOREON) aimed at development (to meet the needs of the Moravian-Silesian Region) a system for modelling, simulating, monitoring and if appropriate even predicting crisis situations caused by both adverse natural, and possibly human effect. The paper describes principles which the FLOREON system is built on, a conception of the entire system and the first results achieved. In conclusion its further development is outlined, and focused on an extension of the system by next hazardous phenomena such as the modelling of dangerous substance leakage, monitoring of traffic situations and others. So a system occurs denoted as FLOREON+. The plus sign in the name means the system will deal not only with floods, but also with other phenomena in the territory.