DESIREE: DEcision Support System for Inundation Risk Evaluation and Emergencies Management

Abstract

The work described within this document forms an activity within the NOTSOMAD TTN. The main objective of the DESIREE project is the implementation of a Decision Support System for the Inundation Risk Evaluation and Emergencies management aimed at analysing and anticipating catastrophic flood events and at preventing and mitigating their effects on the social environmental and cultural heritage. The public administrations are highly sensitive to these aspects and are looking forward to the availability of Decision Support Systems allowing for the planning and the definition of areas at risk as well as for the forecasting of possible catastrophic events in order to define the most appropriate intervention and remedial strategies. The final result of the DESIREE project is a software package, fully integrated into a GIS and a Data Bank, running on a MIMD parallel computer specifically devoted to the simulation of flooding and related phenomena. The developed software is the result of a porting by the addition of OpenMP directives.