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jannisvisser edited this page Dec 11, 2024 · 3 revisions

Feature overview per disaster-type

This pages aims to give an overview of IBF features, especially focused on features that currently differ between disaster-types. There can be various reasons for this:

  • The feature is really not applicable to some disaster-types.
  • More often than this though: a new feature is implemented first for one disaster-type with the intention to implement for all, but there has been no opportunity yet to do this.

NOTE: this page is not complete, and is updated on-the-go.

Features per disaster-type

Features Floods Flash-floods Drought Typhoon Malaria Heavy rain
1. Events v v v v 1/2*
2. Flexible lead times v v v v
3. Event areas v

Feature explanation

  1. Events: Forecast data is grouped into separate events which cover separate parts of the country, and can have different lead times and different severity levels.
    • In malaria events are currently used, but not in the way they should. Simply a separate event is uploaded for each pre-defined month (0-month/1-month/2-month). Each month covers the whole country instead of a relevant subpart. Events are not uploaded for a calculated lead time, but instead separately for each lead time.
  1. Flexible lead times: Whereas IBF started out as giving off forecasts for one or more fixed lead times only (in line with the EAP), it has now largely evolved to flexible lead times. Any forecast within a specified timeframe can lead to a trigger or warning, also if shorter or longer than the EAP-agreed lead time.
  • This feature largely aligns in terms of implementation with Events.
  1. Event areas: In Event view the event area is depicted via one polygon, instead of via all admin-areas (on default admin level) that are part of that event.
  • In flash-floods the event-area is defined as the parent-admin-area.
  • For floods, drought the intention would be to define the polygon in pipeline as the union shape of all event admin-areas (on default admin level).
  • For typhoon an additional complication is that event-areas can overlap geographically.
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