| Rapid integration, correlation, and display of hydrologic and meteorologic data are essential to quickly and accurately monitor potentially threatening storms and to predict hazardous floods. Hence, the fundamental objective of the Integrated Flood Warning and Assessment System (IFWAS) is to provide information to enhance the ability of emergency analysts and managers to make sound decisions in a timely fashion. The flood warning system compiles and evaluates available, near-real-time hydrologic and meteorologic data to make this information available in a usable format to a number of local and federal organizations responsible for flood emergency preparedness and response. IFWAS was developed for Puerto Rico where flash flooding is a common and widespread threat.; The Integrated Flood Warning and Assessment System was developed (including hardware, database, analysis software, and user interface software) to help to determine if, when, and where hazardous flood conditions are eminent. Usability engineering methods were applied in the design of the IFWAS graphical user interface. |
