flood management Applications

Robust, real-time, future proof, redundant, alarm capable systems for flood management operations. KISTERS solutions were developed from the need to effectively capture time critical data during flood events.

By KISTERS AG based in Aachen, GERMANY.

GeoVantage digital multispectral imaging enables large-scale environmental changes such as fire damage, flooding, erosion, or chemical spills, to be quickly located and quantified. Recurrent issues can be tracked over time by comparing imagery taken at different intervals. This approach allows for the most effective containment and solution planning.

GeoVantage customizes each imagery collection plan to optimize your environmental management objectives, including vegetation delineation, pervious/impervious mapping, water quality, and change detection.

By GeoVantage based in Peabody, MASSACHUSETTS (USA).

Visualization of information from your hydrometeorological & early flood warning network in a matter of seconds is critical in the decision making process. Contrail supports the data collection, processing, archiving and dissemination of your hydrometeorological and water resources data in one place. OneRain's Contrail enterprise level software platform collects, processes and archives rainfall, flow, stream level, weather station and many other hydrometeorological data from multiple sources including ALERT/ALERT2 line-of-sight radio data, cellular data, and satellite weather gauge data, and any web-accessible data sources as well as neighboring outside sources such as USGS gauges, METAR, TIDES, HADS, RWIS... . The platform supports any number of users from their laptops, their smartphones, their tablets, however they are connected to the Internet. At its core are the advanced alarm and notification capabilities. Used in Early Flood Warning, Safety of Dams, Emergency Management...

By OneRain Incorporated based in Longmont, COLORADO (USA).

The largest threat to wetlands is the risk of being flooded with sediment as a result of a poorly managed construction site. Most construction projects require erosion control to prevent damage to the wetlands.

By Erosion Control Forum based in Bend, OREGON (USA).

Accurate estimation of the spatial distribution of rainfall is critical to successfully model hydrologic processes. OneRain has worked with engineering firms and those with responsibilities in Stormwater and Wastewater Management across the U.S. to provide radar rainfall data to help characterize storm events or flow problems in collection systems and as a basis for both real-time and design-oriented modeling. OneRainware products and services offer: *Real-time gauge-adjusted radar rainfall (GARR) data *Real-time area-average rainfall *Real-time forecast rainfall *End-of-month archive quality gauge-adjusted radar rainfall data *Historical and post-event analysis using archived rainfall estimates *Web-delivered calibrated radar-rainfall data *StormProperties™ Analysis. GARR data are used in flood warning, runoff modeling, basin modeling, I/I studies, litigation, real-time control, design storms, and National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) compliance activities.

By OneRain Incorporated based in Longmont, COLORADO (USA).

All construction affects groundwater and a water management plan will be required. From deforestation to urbanisation, from holes to heaps and dams to drains, they all have an affect on the groundwater. Deforestation causes an increase in the rate of run off of rainwater resulting in lower percolation of precipitation into the soil and a consequent increase in soil erosion leading to slope instability, hence land and mud slides. The increased rate of run off can cause small streams and large rivers to rise and flood in a shorter time, but also to dry up sooner. These conditions cause great difficulties for subsistence farmers in developing countries. Urbanisation also causes faster run off because of the non permeable surfaces such as roads, roofs and car parks. This also creates drainage problems that can lead to contamination and erosion of natural water courses.

By HERON Instruments Inc. based in Dundas, ONTARIO (CANADA).