Flood Management Information System (FMIS) in Hungary

1. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 Flood Management Information System (FMIS) in Hungary L. SzlávikCiv.Eng., Ph.D., Water Resources Research Centre Plc.(VITUKI), Budapest, Hungary G. JónásElec.Eng. UniOffice System's House,Budapest, Hungary

3. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 Contents : • Importance of flood defence in Hungary • Description of the Flood Management Information System (FMIS)

4. The location of Hungary within Europe

5. The major streams of Hungary

6. Areas inundated permanently and periodically within the Carpathian Basin prior to the flood control and reclamation project (1830)

8. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 Of the 93 000 km2 large territory of the country 21 248 km2 (22,8 %) are floodplains, levees protecting 97 % thereof against inundation by river floods. Facts and figures on the reclaimed flood plains: • 2,5 million people in close to 700 communities are exposed to flood hazard • one-third of arable lands in Hungary: 18000 km2 valuable farmland • the floodplains contain 32% of the railway lines and 15% of the roads • over 2000 industries have settled here • about 25% of the gross domestic product is produced

10. Flood defenses and protected floodplains in Hungary

11. Hungary Tisza Valley (in Hungary) Po Valley (Italy) Ukraine The Netherlands Loire Valley (France) Hungary Tisza Valley (in Hungary) The Netherlands Po Valley (Italy) Ukraine Zuider-zee Loire Valley (France) Comparison of the major flood control developments in Europe

12. Rising flood peaks on the Tisza and her tributaries

14. Successive embankment strenghtening along the Tisza and her tributaries

16. Functions and hierarchic relations in flood emergency control

17. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 The main agencies involved in implementing emergency measures on the state-owned inundation control structures and their functions are – • the twelve district water authorities and the Municipality Budapest–local organization, guidance and actual implementation offlood emergency measures; • the Ministry of Transport, Communication and Water Management, the National Water Authority – national level organization and control; • the Central Flood Fighting Organization and the WaterResources Research Centre (VITUKI) - National Hydrological ForecastingService – national level specialfunctions

18. Links of a regional water authority during flood emergency

20. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 The Flood Management Information System FMIS objectives • extending the lead time for preparing emergency measures; • providing information processed, analysed, assembled, compared and presented at the highest possible level for decision making on alternative emergency measures in a particular emergency situation.

21. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 FMIS functions • supporting the emergency control activities at the particularagency on a local area network; • ensuring information flow to and from emergency control levels above and below the particular agency via the channelsof communication;

22. Flood emergency control levels National level Regional level Regional control centre Special sections Levee sections

24. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 The important principes of theFMIS • flood fighting depends for its effectiveness on a wealth of information - the techniques of information gathering and processing, the methods of situation assessment has to be uniformthroughout the service. • the reports have to be standardized • information flow between the variousinterrelated levels of controlmust be coordinated, • overlapping data communication has to be eliminated.

25. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 The professional tasks to guide flood fighting • collection, recording, processing and forwarding information; • situation analysis, assessment, decision preparation; • decision making on flood fighting measures; • organisation, guidance of flood fighting activities, supervision of their implementation; • preparation and forwarding reports and information; • documenting these activities.

27. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 The FMIS structure Sub-systems : • Information on the hydrological situation • Surveillance reports on the defenses • Emergency diaries, emergency administration • Reports, information • Management of emergency resources • Flood fighting aids

29. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 System arhitecture of the FMIS List of components: • 51 Lotus Domino application servers (which optionally function web servers and SMTP MTAs as well) • 15 Microsoft SQL servers • more than 400 Lotus Notes workstations in 17 regional centers and at about 100 locations across the country • telephone communication lines (33600 bps), leased analog lines and ISDN connections • Lotus Domino Fax Gateway at regional centers for outbound faxing • Lotus Enterprise Integrator based data connection between Notes and relational databases • 45 unique FMIS-oriented Lotus Notes application-modules

30. 4th International Conference HydroInformatics 2000 FMIS in use • The first applications were started in the first half • of 1994 between the centers of 17 institutions directly • involved in flood emergency control. • Regular, routine FMIS applications have been continuoussince July 1, 1994. • Over the past five years several hundred thousand • electronic mails were exchanged between the co-operating • partners with a high level of availability and reliability • 1998, 99, 2000 for 18 months – 3 extremes flood in • Hungary - the FMIS worked without problems