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Modern urbanization tends to cause a fast response time between a heavy precipitation and consequent runoff processes in a river basin. Therefore, it is even more essential nowadays to enable citizens to have a rapid and flexible access to information on the prevention or restoration measures in cases of flood, on the basis of the cutting edge advances of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT). The paper contains a description of a real-time Web application and service for water level observation, processing, presentation and a short term prediction of a river water level in the area of interest. The Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) are implemented for cost-effective water level prediction for a short horizon. On the whole, the Web applications and services should form a part of a publicly accessible Web based flood crisis management system.
A new computing paradigm known as Web Services is quickly gathering momentum in companies ICT. Web Services represent an emerging model for developing and deploying software applications that promises to fundamentally change not only the way companies build and deploy software, but also how they communicate with their partners and customers. This approach can improve the flexibility and the reach of ecisting ICT infrastructures. An example from river-engineering and inundation management will be given.
Modern information and communication technology (ICT) enables new technical solutions to support collaboration in environmental engineering over distance. The establishment of "virtual laboratories" including application of Internet based project platforms, distributed team work and collaboration methods require new kinds of soft skills, knowledge and experience and a new "technological culture" to be generated just by doing - a task for education, training and profession in Hydro-Informatics. This is a challenge for the European dimension, where in future experts and engineers from different countries with different languages, different mentalities as well as different specialization and professional experience have to collaborate in research, teaching and practice. Training of collaborating in such new environment is the challenge of the courses HydroWeb and HydroEurope which by collaboration of 23 universities world-wide will help to establish common high quality university teaching courses and establish links between students from the involved countries. The students are solving a given environmental engineering task in distributed teams in the Internet. The students acquired in this course experience in interdisciplinary team work, net based project co-ordination and Web based reporting. They strengthened their social competence to collaborate in heterogeneous teams with members of different habits, nationalities, ages, educational backgrounds. The described experiment might be the basis to introduce Web based collaborative engineering in the regular course programme of water-environment related curricula at universities.
Extreme Flugereignisse der letzten Jahre haben gezeigt, wie bedeutend die Organisation und ein störungsfreier Informationsfluß bei Katastrophen sind. Moderne Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien rücke dabei mehr und mehr in den Vordergrund. Die Entwicklung von Werkzeugen zum Hochwassermanagement, welche Informationen in kürzester Zeit sowohl für Krisenmanager als auch für den einzelnen betroffenen Bürger bereitstellen, waren ein Schwerpunkt des europäischen Forschungsprojektes OSIRIS (Operational Solutions fort he Management of Inundation Risks in the Information Society). In Deutschland wurden speziell für Frankfurt (Oder) Web Anwendungen entwickelt, welche Dienste und Informationen zum Hochwassermanagement für "jedermann" anbieten. Beispielhaft werden hier die Vorhersage- und Warndienste näher betrachtet.