Flood Management Information System (FMIS) in Hungary

Flood Management Information System (FMIS)

in Hungary LL.. Szlávik Szlávik Civ.Eng., Ph.D.,Civ.Eng., Ph.D.,

Water Resources Research Centre Plc.(VITUKI)Water Resources Research Centre Plc.(VITUKI), Budapest, , Budapest, HungaryHungary

GG.. Jónás Jónás Elec.Eng.Elec.Eng.

UniOffice System's HouseUniOffice System's House,, Budapest, HungaryBudapest, Hungary

4th International Conference

Hydro Informatics 2000

Contents :

Importance of flood defence in Hungary

Description of the Flood Management Information System (FMIS)



The The loclocation of Hungary within Europe ation of Hungary within Europe

The major streams of HungaryThe major streams of Hungary

Areas inundated permanently and periodically within the Areas inundated permanently and periodically within the Carpathian Basin prior to the flood control and reclamation Carpathian Basin prior to the flood control and reclamation

project (1830)project (1830)

Of the Of the 93 000 km2 large territory of the country large territory of the country 21 248 km2 (22,8 %) are floodplains, levees protecting 97 % thereof (22,8 %) are floodplains, levees protecting 97 % thereof against inundation by river floods.against inundation by river floods.

Facts and figures on the reclaimed flood plains:



one-third of arable lands in Hungary: 18000 km2

valuable farmland

2,5 million people in close to 700 communities are exposed to flood hazard

the floodplains contain 32% of the railway lines and 15% of the roads over 2000 industries have settled here about 25% of the gross domestic product is produced

Flood defenses and protected floodFlood defenses and protected floodplainsplains in in HungaryHungary

Length of flood defenses

2700

24001630

1500

480

4220

0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000

km

Area protected

23,6

17,3

14,46,9

4,6

1,8

0,7

0 5 10 15 20 25

thousand km2

Comparison of the major flood control developments in Comparison of the major flood control developments in EuropeEurope

HungaryTisza Valley (in Hungary)

Po Valley (Italy)Ukraine

The NetherlandsLoire Valley (France)

HungaryTisza Valley (in Hungary)

The NetherlandsPo Valley (Italy)

UkraineZuider-zee

Loire Valley (France)

Rising flood peaks on the Tisza and her tributarRising flood peaks on the Tisza and her tributariieses

500

600

700

800

900

1000

1100

1830

1845

1855

1867

1876

1879

1881

1888

1895

1919

1932

1970

1974

1999

2000

Year

Hig

hest

pea

k on

rec

ord

(cm

)

Tisza, Szeged

Tisza, Szolnok

Fekete-Körös,RemeteFehér-Körös, Gyula

Successive embankment strenghtening along the Tisza and Successive embankment strenghtening along the Tisza and her tributariesher tributaries

Functions and hierarchic relations in flood emergency Functions and hierarchic relations in flood emergency control control

The main agencies involved in implementing emergency measures on the state-owned inundation

control structures and their functions are –

the Central Flood Fighting Organization and the WaterResources Research Centre (VITUKI) - National Hydrological Forecasting Service – national level special functions

the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Water Management, the National Water Authority – national level organization and control;

the twelve district water authorities and the Municipality Budapest – local organization, guidance and actual implementation of flood emergency measures;



Links of a regional water authority during flood Links of a regional water authority during flood emergencyemergency

The Flood Management Information System FMIS objectives

extending the lead time for preparing emergency measures; providing information processed, analysed, assembled, compared and presented at the highest possible level for decision making on alternative emergency measures in a particular emergency situation.



FMIS functions

ensuring information flow to and from emergency control levels above and below the particular agency via the channels of communication;

supporting the emergency control activities at the particular agency on a local area network;



National level

Regional level

Regional control centre

Levee sectionsSpecial sections

Flood emergency control levels Flood emergency control levels

The important principes of the FMIS

flood fighting depends for its effectiveness on a wealth of information - the techniques of information gathering and processing, the methods of situation assessment has to be uniform throughout the service.

information flow between the various interrelated levels of control must be coordinated,



overlapping data communication has to be eliminated.

the reports have to be standardized

The professional tasks to guide flood fighting

collection, recording, processing and forwarding information; situation analysis, assessment, decision preparation;

decision making on flood fighting measures;

organisation, guidance of flood fighting activities, supervision of their implementation;

preparation and forwarding reports and information;

documenting these activities.



The FMIS structure

Flood fighting aids

Management of emergency resources

Reports, information

Emergency diaries, emergency administration

Surveillance reports on the defenses

Information on the hydrological situation

Sub-systems :



System arhitecture of the FMIS

List of components:

51 Lotus Domino application servers (which optionally function web servers and SMTP MTAs as well) 15 Microsoft SQL servers more than 400 Lotus Notes workstations in 17 regional centers and at about 100 locations across the country telephone communication lines (33600 bps), leased analog lines and ISDN connections Lotus Domino Fax Gateway at regional centers for outbound faxing Lotus Enterprise Integrator based data connection between Notes and relational databases 45 unique FMIS-oriented Lotus Notes application-modules



FMIS in use

The first applications were started in the first half of 1994 between the centers of 17 institutions directly involved in flood emergency control.

Regular, routine FMIS applications have been continuous since July 1, 1994.

Over the past five years several hundred thousand electronic mails were exchanged between the co-operating partners with a high level of availability and reliability

1998, 99, 2000 for 18 months – 3 extremes flood in Hungary - the FMIS worked without problems



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