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HIDRALERTA

Thematic Area
Innovation
Location
Vitoria Beach, Terceira, Azores
Costa da Caparica, Portugal
Application Areas
Industry
Scope
R&D
Consequences and Risk Maps
Daily bulletin of the HIDRALERTA system
Hidralerta system layouts (overtopping and alert)
HIDRALERTA scheme
HIDRALERTA Web platform

Entity

Description

The HIDRALERTA project includes the development of a system for forecasting, warning and assessment of risks associated with wave overtopping and flooding in coastal and port areas.

Objectives

  • Development of a prototype system, HIDRALERTA system, for the Praia da Vitória harbor, Azores, and for São João da Caparica beach, Costa da Caparica.
  • Construction of risk maps that are decision-support tools for the authorities.
  • A user friendly tool to the real-time evaluation of overtopping/flooding emergencies, issuing warning messages to the authorities
  • Development of system for the forecast, warn and assess of the risk of flooding in coastal and port areas, in a WebGIS environment.

Results

- A system for the forecast, warn and assess of the risk of overtopping and flooding in coastal and port areas

- System prototypes for Costa da Caparica beach and Praia da Vitória harbour

- Web platform for the Praia da Vitoria harbour

- Daily layouts of te Web platform

- Daily bulletins which are sent to the responsible authorities

- Consequences and risk maps of the areas of Costa da Caparica and the Praia da Vitória harbor

Next challenges

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