Design and implementation of a decision support system for flood management

Abstract

This work deals with the design and implementation of a decision support system for flood management. In the society today emergency issues arises due to terrorist attack, flood disaster, epidemics, widespread massive riot etc. In other to handle this situation government has established a number of agents supported by Non-governmental organization (NGO). Due to non-existence of integrated database and communication support system for managing flood emergency has resulted to poor handling, huge losses and reoccurrences. This work involves managing the inter operations/ interlinks of flood incidents sources by the handling agents, design of database report format and communication media for the system automation. In other to solve this problem waterfall methodology was adopted in this study. The programming tool adopted was adobe dreamer. Its host has front end and back end. The front end is the user interface and serves as a channel through which users communicates to the system. Adobe dreamer being the tools used for building such web-based application supports many mark-up languages like HTML, CSS and Java script. The most common available tools for the development of this system is the Adobe Dream waver which is IDE (integrated Development Environment. It is a creation management tool and requires no programming language and good enough for experienced website developers.