H177-04
SaferPLACES platform: a cloud web climate service for cost-effective mapping of flood hazard and risk in urban areas.
Tuesday, 15 December 2020: 08:42
Virtual
Paolo Mazzoli1, Stefano Bagli2, Valerio Luzzi3, Francesca Renzi4, Attilio Castellarin5, Simone Persiano Sr6, Jaroslav Mysiak7, Arthur Hrast Essenfelder7, Mattia Amadio7, Francesca Larosa7, Stefania Pasetti8, Marco Folegani8, Kai Schroeter9, Sofie Ullrich9 and Luis Mediero10, (1)GECOSistema Srl, R&D, Bolzano, Italy, (2)GECOsistema Srl, R&D, Rimini, Italy, (3)Gecosistema Srl, R&D, Rimini, Italy, (4)Gecosistema srl, R&D, Rimini, Italy, (5)Università di Bologna, DICAM, Bologna, Italy, (6)University of Bologna, DICAM, Bologna, Italy, (7)CMCC Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy, (8)MEEO S.r.l. Meteorological Environmental Earth Observation, Ferrara, Italy, (9)GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany, (10)Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Abstract:
Floods are a global hazard that may have adverse impacts on a wide-range of social, economic, and environmental processes. In view of climate change, the frequency and intensity of extreme floods is expected to rise in the future in many places. In general, flood hazard can be classified according to the different sources that lead to a hazardous event, such as pluvial, fluvial and coastal flooding. The characterisation of flood hazard events and their multi-hazard nature are fundamental steps in order to increase the resilience of cities and to reduce the potential losses and damages from flooding events.
SaferPLACES platform provides a cost-effective and user-friendly cloud-based solution for pluvial, fluvial and coastal flood hazard and risk mapping. SaferPlaces supports multiple stakeholders in designing urban resilience strategies by converting physical damages into economic losses under present and future climate scenarios.
The intelligence behind the SaferPLACES platform integrates innovative fast DEM-based flood hazard and Bayesian damage assessment models which are able to provide results in real-time in short computation times by exploiting the power of cloud computing.
A beta version of the platform is available at platform.saferplaces.co and so far is active in four pilots cities: Rimini and Milan in Italy, Pamplona in Spain and Cologne in Germany.
SaferPLACES (saferplaces.co) is a research project founded by EIT Climate-KIC (www.climate-kic.org).
