Aqua Blue | Water, Water, Everywhere!
Singapore
The Challenge | Water, Water, Everywhere!
Develop a tool that provides emergency management personnel with an up-to-date flood-risk map for an area of interest.
Aqua Duck
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Aqua Duck is aimed at people who want to actively try to duck flash floods. A flash flood risk model that can be easily deployed requiring precipitation data to provide flood map of designated area.
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Aqua Duck is developed using 900 uniformly distributed nodes in Singapore to provide the flood risk areas in precipitation scenarios. The model uses elevation data from 900 nodes, with the assumption that water will flow to the adjacent node with the lowest elevation. The model also accounts for water flow rate and water absorption affects to to flooding.
Resources used:
Elevation data, Google Maps
Meteorological Service Singapore
Singapore's National Water Authority
National Environment Agency, Singapore
EarthData, NASA
SEDAC, NASA
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