Short name: Dewetra
Long name: myDEWETRA World
Platform type: web-based GIS application
Usage: Real-time flood risk assessment and monitoring, multi-hazard forecasts, impact-based early warning
Background: myDEWETRA.world is an open-source web-based system for real-time monitoring and forecasting of natural hazards like floods, landslides, and wildfires. The application is designed to be a single point of access to a wealth of information and data available at global, regional and local scale, provided by multiple authoritative institutions and agencies.
The platform can incorporate and organize the information and data produced by many hydrological or hydraulic models implemented in a defined area or basin, aimed to assess the effects of a possible event.
myDEWETRA.world is developed between the Italian Civil Protection Department and CIMA Foundation – International Centre for Environmental Monitoring. It is subject of an Agreement among the Italian Department of Civil Protection and the World Meteorological Organization and is is available to every country under request.
Channel routing:
Reservoir operation:
Shortwave radiation:
Longwave radiation:
Precipitation:
Evapotranspiration:
Snowmelt:
Infiltration:
Surface runoff:
Baseflow:
Input data: time series, quasi-static data
Input format: OGC-compliant formats, freely available and open data (forecast models, observations, quasi-static data) on global and regional scale already integrated / national-scale, authoritative data in standard formats can be ingested upon request
Data Latency: Real-time (latency depending on how often input are provided by data owner)
Model Output Time-Series: Hydrological models / Hydraulic models
Platform Output Time-series:
Data Download Format: Geotiff, vector, .csv, .png
Analysis: Observational data, model data (meteorological, hydrological model included), static data synthesis, comparison and integration; space-time statistics/ reporting / on-the-fly impact-based scenarios design
Models availability: NWP models (GFS, IFS, COSMO-LAMI), hydrological models (Glofas, EFAS, FloodProofs), hydraulic models (Telemac 2D, FwDet) are/can be included, national/local scale models can be ingested upon request.
Installation Resources: Local installation / cloud-hosting both available
Installation: Medium
Access: upon request
Platform Hosting: hosted at CIMA
User Education: Master’s degree in Environmental Engineering / Hydrology or higher
Degree of Difficulty: 5
GIS Expertise: needed for local installation only
IT Expertise: needed for local installation only
Hardware Requirements: CPU: 8 core; RAM: 64 Gb; Storage: it depends on needs
Operating System: Linux
Supported Browser: Bing, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari (* optimized for Chrome)
Language of Core Code: Python and Java
Open Source: Open Source
Latest Update and Version: 15/11/2021 v.2.1.1
Next Update and Version: 30/06/2022 v.2.1.2
Active Development Community: Yes
Download URL: dewetra@protezionecivile.it
Free to Download and Use: Yes
Language of Software Interface:
Online Support URL: mydewetra.world@cimafoundation.org
Training Material URL (including example data sets): https://www.infomydewetra.world/trainings/
Language of Trainings: English, French, Portuguese
Guidance Material URL (including case studies and benchmarking of performance/speed): https://wikisrv.cimafoundation.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Language of Guidance: English, French
References: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-11818-5_15
Owner: Italian Department of Civil Protection
Developer: CIMA Foundation