Making sure geography matters for proper decision making in disaster management! Presenting our mobile app and web platform Geo-MAHA (Geo-Mobile Application for Hazard Alert notification and observation) on the GEO-XII Ministerial Summit in Mexico city - participants from 97 countries, 87 international organizations and private sector

1. Geo-MAHA:
Geo Mobile Application for Hazard Alert
Observation and Notification
Lyubomir Filipov,
Team leader,
GAP Consult Ltd.
Mexico-city, 10.11.2015
2015 Ministerial Summit & GEO - XII Plenary
http://gapconsult.bg
This application has been developed within the MyGEOSS project, which has received
funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme

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About us
Quick facts:
• Established in 2006, we have more than 50 successfully completed
projects in 20+ countries;
• ISO 9001:2008 Certified, UKAS acreditation;
• Cloud company infrastructure, based on Amazon EC2;
• Main office in Europe and branch division in Asia;
• Usage of proprietary and FOSS solutions.
Services:
• Business analysis, tailored to geospatial applications;
• Complex IT system design;
• Development of integrated GIS: web/mobile;
• On-demand open source geo applications (SaaS/PaaS);
• Spatial data development, integration and support;
• Spatial analysis, modelling and digital cartography;
• User training and maintenance.

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Context
Hazards of different types (both natural and man-made accidents)
have been increasing in frequency and intensity in Europe and
around the world.
Expected average annual flood losses in the EU, estimated at
€ 4.9 billion/year for the period 2000-2012, were projected to
potentially increase to €23.5 billion by 2050.
https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/news/rising-flood-losses-require-increased-eu-adaptation-efforts.
On an European level there is good coordination on gathering
data (e.g. Flood Directive 2007/60/EC), integrating services (e.g.
WISE/EIONET/JRC Inspire portal, etc.) yet there is a lack of
integration of this information for the usage of common citizen in
their daily activities.

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Context
Krumovgrad city, Bulgaria, source: http://earbd.org/indexdetails.pOrasjehp?menu_id=397
Orasje, Serbia, source: REUTERS/Marko Djurica

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Project goalProject goal
The goal of the project is to address the integration of openly
available geospatial data, related to hazards, to make it
accessible in a user friendly way and to provide functionality to
gather observations (crowdsourcing), which can be further used
by institutions and the society as a whole.

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Main use caseMain use case

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Data sourcesData sources
• Data for flood risk - http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/ Floods Directive
Preliminary flood risk assessment, shapefiles. This data is freely available for
download and re-use on the EU EIONET portal. The data identify potential
flood risk areas as a point, line and polygon feature.
• Data for fire risk - European Forest Fire Information System,
http://forest.jrc.ec.europa.eu/effis/applications/current-situation/. This data
is freely available as a web service (web map service).
• Crowd-sourced data for location of hazard relate events or signals. This data
will be collected by individual users and will be stored on a centralized web
platform.

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Key functionality of mobile appKey functionality of mobile app
• Automatic notification if the user enters within fire risk or flood risk area.
This will alert the user to pay more attention to the surrounding
environment. (e.g. Lighting fire in a fire risk area or fishing on a rainy day
in a flood risk area).
• Weather forecast (based on http://www.openweathermap.org/ ). This
will alert the user to plan the trip accordingly (e.g. Heavy rains, expected
in a flood risk area or heat wave in the summer, expected in a fire risk
area).
• Functionality for the user to enter/gather data, related to the hazard
event, e.g.: to report areas of river beds, which are filled with wood,
therefor narrow passages for water; damaged dikes; dry woods in the
forest; signs of fire activities, etc.

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Mobile app interfaceMobile app interface

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Key functionality of web appKey functionality of web app
• Web map for visualization of all flood risk and fire-risk areas and the
crowd-sourced data, accessible for the open public.
• Web map which can be embeded in the web site of local river
management authority or other institution for alerts monitoring.
Sample web app: http://52.18.198.147/maps/8/embed

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Technology stackTechnology stack
GIS environment:
• PostGRE/GIS: http://www.postgresql.org/; http://postgis.net/
• Geoserver: http://geoserver.org/
• Geonode: http://geonode.org/
Development environment:
• HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Development technologies:
• PhoneGap: http://phonegap.com/
• Angular: https://angularjs.org/
• Ionic: http://ionicframework.com/
Gloud based platform on Amazon EC2, Linux Virtual Machine.

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Potential usersPotential users
• Local authorites, responsible for river management and flood related
activities;
• Natural park & forest management enterprises for fire risk prevention;
• Insurance companies, Irrigation companies, Utility companies, Real
Estate companies;
• Open public (e.g. fisherman, tourists, hikers, kayak community,
citizens to be aware that their homes are inside flood risk areas, etc.).

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Thank youThank you
Lyubomir Filipov,
GIS Manager
lyubomir.filipov@gapconsult.bg
http://gapconsult.bg
Tel: +359 888 972277
Fax: +359 2 4916469