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1 Grant Contract N. ECHO/SUB/2014/ Programme for Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Floods in the Western Balkans and Turkey IPA FLOODS Capacity Building Activities 2016 MY DEWETRA IPAFLOODS REPORT Prepared by: Verified by : Stefania Traverso, Laura Rossello, Guido Biondi Marco Massabo 20 th February 2017

2 Glossary Introduction Technical features of the platform Description of My DEWETRA IPAFLOODS applications... 4 Dewetra FloodCAT... 9 Geonode ESRI Geoportal Server for Metadata Configuration tool Administrative tool WIKI manuals Kumalè See KMS ANNEX: Manual for publishing data on My DEWETRA IPAFLOODS for administrators APSFR CIMA CSW EUFD EUWFD FH&FRM FRMP ICPD INSPIRE OGC PFRA SSO WISE Glossary Areas with Potential Significant Flood Risk Environmental Monitoring International Centre Catalog Services for the Web European Union Floods Directive European Union Water Framework Directive Flood Hazard and Flood Risk Maps Flood Risk Management Plans Italian Civil Protection Department Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe Open Geospatial Consortium Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment Single Sign-on Water Information System for Europe 2 P a g e

1. Introduction This report is compiled in order to provide a clear vision of the scope, the agreements and the technical capacity of the platform My Dewetra IPAFLOODS, developed within the IPAFLOODS

3 1. Introduction This report is compiled in order to provide a clear vision of the scope, the agreements and the technical capacity of the platform My Dewetra IPAFLOODS, developed within the IPAFLOODS project and released officially on 31 st December 2016 at the closing of Lot 1, in charge of IPA FLOODS component on capacity building for EU FLOODS Directive approximation (EUFD NFP). My Dewetra IPAFLOODS is the Flood Risk Information System of the project according to Sub-Work-package 2.1. The entry page can be accessed at the link ipafloods.mydewetra.org as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1 It is a customization of MyDewetra, owned by the Italian Department of Civil Protection, developed by CIMA Research Foundation with open source technologies and compliant with the most common and widespread European and International standards. This IT infrastructure has been provided in kind to Beneficiaries countries within the project IPA FLOODS by CIMA Foundation and ICPD, and will be maintained by CIMA Foundation for long time after the end of the project as a mean to facilitate the capacity of Beneficiaries in the collection and sharing of geospatial information needed for Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment and Flood Hazard and Flood Risk Mapping. CIMA Foundation will grant for the same time a remote assistance to the publication of data on the platform and to its comprehension. The Capacity Building Activities developed during 2016 in the Beneficiaries countries registered the participation of officers from many institutions involved in the implementation and harmonization of EUFD to trainings and presentations of the beta version of the present platform. 3 P a g e

4 This document is produced as a guide for a complete and updated view of the platform and its applications and usage. Moreover in the annex the manual for publishing data is provided for the expert users who will be in charge of publishing/cataloguing data and/or will be local administrators in the Beneficiary. 2. Technical features of the platform My Dewetra IPAFLOODS is a portal protected by a secure SSO system that includes all the single applications dedicated to the specific activity as previously described. It is developed as a 2.0 Web Application and uses the most cutting edge technologies available; it is a RESTful application coded in python on the server side with a pure HTML 5.0/CSS client developed with AngularJS Open Source Framework. Under My Dewetra IPAFLOODS the user can access to the main DEWETRA 2.0 application that implements all the well-known OGC standards like WxS for data sharing and CSW for catalogues. With a completely renewed user interface, with native support also for mobile device, DEWETRA 2.0 relies on a layers-tag system to let the user access the required data in a quick and efficent way. On the server side the system relies on Dewetra Data Server technology, assuring the full compatibility with all existing data and making quick and easy the support to any other new data that has to be added. The acquisition systems and publishing engine has been strongly optimized making the whole system stunning fast and responsive. 3. Description of My DEWETRA IPAFLOODS applications The platform is cloud-based and designed with different modules (Figure 2) variously accessible through a policy on profiles: Geonode has been introduced as web-based application for uploading data; Esri Geoportal Server has to be intended as the open source tool oriented to the metadata management; two applications designed by CIMA Foundation and ICPD have been thought as the core elements of the system: Dewetra 2.0, customized here to be only a surfer of geospatial information implemented according to INSPIRE Data Themes in the access to data via tags and according to EUFD components accessing data with the logic of folders; FloodCAT, built under specific reporting schema for EUFD so to populate flood catalogues for recording and sharing data on historical floods, their consequences and impacts to human health, economic activity, environment and cultural heritage. 4 P a g e

Figure 2 Other five additional applications have been customized to support specific needs of the platform: a wiki manual provides general information to accessing data in the platform; a microblog

5 Figure 2 Other five additional applications have been customized to support specific needs of the platform: a wiki manual provides general information to accessing data in the platform; a microblog named Kumale provides an environment to chat among circles of users; SEE.KMS is a library containing material on Disaster Risk Reduction from see.kms project of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) hosted by Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Initiative SEE; the Layer Configurator is the application needed to configure the way layers appears on Dewetra 2.0; the Administrator- Profile manager provides settings for users and circles. The link to all these applications can be found in the next Figure 3. 5 P a g e

6 Figure 3 Dewetra 2 Dewetra 2.0 is the evolution of the former integrated system Dewetra owned by the Italian Department of Civil Protection and developed by CIMA Research Foundation, operational at the Central Functional Centre of the National Civil Protection Department (DPC) c/o Prime Minister's Office since 2008, for the forecasting, monitoring and real-time surveillance of all the environmental risks. The application in its complete version can provide, through a graphical interface, high-resolution and continuously updated information, allowing the user to monitor weather events, to build detailed risk scenarios and evaluate the potential impact of phenomena on communities and infrastructure. Dewetra 2.0 allows each computer connected to the Internet the use of the integrated data, regardless the provider. The application manages, in fact, both the data provided by the National System of Functional Centres and the territorial and geospatial ones published as WMS services by other platforms. Dewetra 2.0 is able to load and display geo-referenced static and dynamic layers, and offers interactive tools and features for the analysis of ongoing and past events. Dewetra allows the collection and systematization 6 P a g e

By default the system proposes the tag mode that has been organized following the INSPIRE Themes Data- Specifications.

7 of various kind of data, automatically or manually recorded and produces maps with value added elaborations. IN IPA FLOODS only the static layer surfer component has been implemented. The static layers can be choosen and loaded selecting between two different modes, Tag and Folder. By default the system proposes the tag mode that has been organized following the INSPIRE Themes Data- Specifications. Figure 4 The folder mode (Figure 5) proposes a classification for each country following the categories of the EUFD regarding the three steps: Preliminary Flood Risk Assessment, Flood Hazard and Risk Maps, Flood Risk Management Plans, and components typical for each step. A detailed example is reported in Figure 6. 7 P a g e

Figure 5 Figure 6 The platform includes a web-portal to

interoperability with already existing web-services as

complies with main relevant international standards (e.g.

8 Figure 5 Figure 6 The platform includes a web-portal to visualize data from different sources and will ensure interoperability with already existing web-services as well as with the EU Water Information System,, and complies with main relevant international standards (e.g. EU INSPIRE Directive ). An example is given in Figure 7. 8 P a g e

Figure 7 The system has been designed to facilitate usage and sharing of spatial data on flood risk and to enhance the cooperation at National and Regional level among institutions, agencies and

9 Figure 7 The system has been designed to facilitate usage and sharing of spatial data on flood risk and to enhance the cooperation at National and Regional level among institutions, agencies and experts. The adoption of similar procedures, tools and terms could be the starting point towards the sharing of knowledge and data. One of the goals of the system is to create a specific environment for various actors in which spatial data from different users and countries can reach an effective utilization towards a full flood risk information system. FloodCAT The Italian government has established by law (a Directive of the President of the Council of Ministries, Dir.P.C.M. 49/2015) that the Civil Protection Department makes available to Regions and River Basin Authorities (FD Competent Authorities) a web-gis platform, named FloodCat, that fulfills the function of catalogue of flood events and, therefore, should be used to address the mentioned requirements of the FD. Therefore, in Italy FloodCat is the official technological platform for reporting historical and potential future floods according to the EU Floods Directive. Based on its specific architecture and in accordance to the Floods Reporting Guidance, for each significant flood the following data and information should be recorded: location (name of locality, river basin, subbasin and/or coastal area or other areas associated with past floods); category of flood (past flood or 9 P a g e

commencement and duration (days) for each flood; type and degree of adverse consequences for: 1. human health; 2. environment; 3.

10 Programme for Prevention, Preparedness and Response to Floods in the Western Balkans and Turkey - IPA FLOODS potential future flood); type of flood; extent (area of land inundated, or length of river stretches or coasts); probability of flood event (frequency, recurrence); date of commencement and duration (days) for each flood; type and degree of adverse consequences for: 1. human health; 2. environment; 3. cultural heritage; 4. economic activity plus other relevant information. Screenshots are given in the subsequent Figure 8 and Figure 9. Figure 8 Figure 9 10 P a g e

Figure 10 Figure 11 ESRI Geoportal Server for Metadata The metadata manager selected is an open source application developed by ESRI where it is possible to create

11 Geonode For IPA FLOODS project on the cloud space a specific installation of Geonode has been created. The manuals can be found on the website of Geonode developers at The appearance of the application is shown in the Figure 10 and Figure 11. Figure 10 Figure 11 ESRI Geoportal Server for Metadata The metadata manager selected is an open source application developed by ESRI where it is possible to create metadata forms for registering contents of the catalog of layers. Documentation is available at and a screenshot with the appearance of the application is shown in Figure P a g e

12 Figure 12 Configuration tool The configuration tool is the application needed to configure the way layers appears on Dewetra 2.0 and an example is shown in the next Figure 13. Figure P a g e

13 Administrative tool The Administrator- Profile manager provides settings for users and circles according to: Figure 14 WIKI manuals The support to the usage of the content of the platform is provided through a wiki environment, as shown in Figure 15. Figure 15 Kumalè KUMALE is a social application available as an export blog and common sharing platform to facilitate the communications between all the involved stakeholders during the normal work and during emergencies (Figure 16). Figure P a g e

See KMS The link of the platform directly connects to the website http://seekms.dppi.info/ where see.

14 See KMS The link of the platform directly connects to the website where see.kms is a project of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) hosted by DPPI SEE. The content is thought as an useful library on DRR. Figure P a g e

GEONODE http://ipafloodsgeonode.mydewetra.

15 ANNEX: Manual for publishing data on My DEWETRA IPAFLOODS for administrators UPLOADING LAYERS ON GEONODE Select language: Fill credits to access: 15 P a g e

16 Explore layers: Upload layers: Select layers: 16 P a g e

17 Execute upload: Manage layers: 17 P a g e

18 Manage styles: 18 P a g e

Layer configuration for Dewetra http://ipafloods.mydewetra.org/apps/layerconfig/index.

19 Layer configuration for Dewetra Three possibilities for the customization to Dewetra: Publish a new layer, Edit layer, Remove layer TO PUBLISH: select wms service where the layer has been published (es. Geonode service ) and the layer itself. 19 P a g e

The layer is now ready for publication; to characterize the layer it is necessary to fill out some fields before saving f (the required fields have an asterisk).

the wms selected service; id: the unique id of the layer, is the name with which the layer was saved geonode; bounding box: the coordinates to which you want to refer to this layer (layer to zoom);

20 The layer is now ready for publication; to characterize the layer it is necessary to fill out some fields before saving f (the required fields have an asterisk). Following is a brief description: name: the name that will appear on Dewetra; description: the description displayed on Dewetra; metadata url: any link to metadata; icon: the icon type; WMS service: the wms selected service; id: the unique id of the layer, is the name with which the layer was saved geonode; bounding box: the coordinates to which you want to refer to this layer (layer to zoom); layer type: select the type from the drop down menu or possibly add a new one; layer tags: keywords that characterize the layer (drop-down menu or the possibility of adding new tags); layer groups: the group to which you want to bind the layers (dropdown menu); layer path: the path to the folder menu that you want to assign to the layer (drop-down menu or the possibility of adding new locations); layer category: 3 categories are available, a standard layer select "static". Fill-in the fields of interest and click "save" button to end the procedure. 20 P a g e

21 Like the publishing process, the steps to change a layer need to select the files of interest and compilations of the same fields described above. These changes relate to the name, the type of route, tags and icons to characterize the layer on Dewetra. If you want to change the style you must go back to Geonode. The last window allows the elimination of layers from Dewetra catalog. 21 P a g e

INSPIRE: ready for landing?

INSPIRE: ready for landing? Prof. Bernardo De Bernardinis President ISPRA Italian National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research INSPIRE 2013 Conference Opening Plenary, 25 th June 2013 Network