In future, the tsunami early warning system will warn people of an approaching giant wave. In the webcast, Torsten Riedlinger, project coordinator at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), describes how the early warning system works and how the data from sensors on land and at sea provide a reliable picture of the situation. The Decision Support System (DSS) was developed by the German Remote Sensing Data Center (DFD) at DLR.
The DSS is tailored for use in the event of a crisis. When a giant wave is rolling towards the coast, every second counts for the population to get to safety. To ensure rapid early warning, but also to avoid false alarms, the Indonesian authorities need reliable data and a system that collates and analyzes this information - the DSS decision support system. The user interface and process flows in the DSS are designed in such a way that employees can make decisions quickly and reliably, even under high time pressure and stress. The multiple redundancy ensures a high level of reliability. In addition to extensive geodata sets, databases also hold the risk information and hazard maps pre-processed by DLR. The system set up here is conceptually and in terms of complexity incomparable with any other system in the world.
November 11, 2008
Appropriate decision making – Thorsten Riedlinger about the Tsunami decision support system (germ.)
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Appropriate decision making – Thorsten Riedlinger about the Tsunami decision support system (germ.)
