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River Flood Early Warning System

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River Flood Early Warning System

A flood early-warning platform for a provincial disaster management agency monitoring a river basin in near real time.

Domain

Flood Early Warning / Disaster Management

Role

Full-Stack GIS Developer

River Flood Early Warning System

At A Glance

What Makes It Work

Flood sensors reporting live water level, velocity and discharge with status flags

Automatic weather stations feeding nowcast-to-forecast weather surfaces

Historic flood extents for 2015, 2017, 2022 and 2025 with month-by-month playback

Population exposure analysis across settlements and critical infrastructure

Capabilities

Core Functionality

Flood sensor pop-ups showing water level, velocity, discharge, status and full history

Weather layer switcher spanning nowcast and forecast products

Hexbin temperature and rainfall surfaces driven by a 24-hour animated timeline

Historic flood extent layers selectable by year with monthly playback

Exposure panel breaking down total population, settlements, male, female, children, elderly and adults

Infrastructure and hardware layers — towers, health facilities and schools

Alerts, emergency contacts, archives, notifications and site / device management

Technologies

Tools & Stack

Frontend: React
Mapping: Mapbox GL JS
Backend: Django (Python)
Database: PostgreSQL + PostGIS
Deployment: Netlify / Linux

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