The project was proposed and is led by the Agency for Civil Protection of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano. The main objective of the project is to update, validate and harmonise the data, products and analyses of quantitative hydrology available in South Tyrol and to realise a web platform dedicated to water where such information can be made accessible in a simple, organic and free way.

The project foresees the collaboration between the Agency for Civil Protection of the Autonomous Province of Bolzano, the University of Padua and Eurac Research.

Eurac Research will participate by carrying out the following activities

a) Collaboration in data validation with the programming of automatic real-time and delayed validation algorithms for the recognition of spikes and other typical errors in hydrological measurements;

b) Preparation of the project brand manual to ensure consistency and recognisability and involving naming, logo, icons, graphics, maps and all aspects of web design and visual identity to establish a strong emotional connection with stakeholders;

c) Design of the user interface (UI), user experience (UX) and structure (sitemap) of the web portal for an attractive, multilingual, visually stimulating and appropriately themed graphic layout and a functional, well-organised and intuitive interface structure;

d) Development and web-design of the web portal starting with the three main sections (hydrological situation and forecasts, Hydrological Atlas with climatology 1991-2020, data exploration and download);

e) Design and implementation of the data flows to and from the portal, including their cloud storage and product generation engines, as well as the cockpit for driving the scheduled functions and monitoring the system status;

f) Collaboration on the developments of the ICHYMOD model envisaged under this agreement with the development of dedicated algorithms and the preparation of maps useful for the assimilation of satellite data into the calculation schemes being updated;

g) Definition of indices useful for the description of the current hydrological situation and the present and past hydrological trends with respect to the climatology of South Tyrol;

h) Production of project progress reports and deliverables for the above-mentioned activities.

Contact Person: alexander.jacob@eurac.edu