Infrastructure Protection Utilising Real-time Monitoring of Affected Catchments by Developing Predictive Models During Flash Flooding Events (2023-2025)

Australia, like many countries, have developed modern cities on flood plains. This coupled with
the lack of real-time data to augment flood models means that emergency services lack vital
information to alert communities in a timely way when flood events arise, especially flash-floods.
These problems will undoubtedly become more acute with climate change over the coming
decades. With the advent of IoT equipment and digital twins, it is timely to rethink how warning
systems operate. Geoscape recently provided 3D data on buildings for flood response in
Queensland. Geoscape can work with partners to integrate 3D built infrastructure data with sensor
data to provide to enhance flood response capabilities.

Key Objectives:
* To capture data from distributed sensors (water level, rainfall, soil moisture) across a river
catchment in real-time
To develop a pipeline in transmitting live data in RIIS database for integration into a digital twin
* To develop predictive modeling and ML/AIalgorithms within a system development
architecture to flood maps in protecting infrastructure utilising live data sets
* To create real-time, or near real-time flood maps and modeling and visualising them in different
scenarios for infrastructure resilience

Industry Problem:

The recent flood events (2022) in SE QLD and NSW have resulted in enormous hardships to major infrastructures and indeed local communities. In QLD alone, the social, financial, and economic costs have been predicted by Deloitte’s to be $7.7B. The impact is profound: Residential and commercial damage; public infrastructure, lost economic activity, lost agricultural production, emergency response and clean-up costs, facilities and injuries; Health social, and community impacts. For a country like Australia with modern infrastructure, and local government associations and government agencies who plan for prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery, in great detail, one has to question what’s missing. The basic problem is that Australia, like many countries, has developed modern cities on flood plains. This coupled with the lack of real-time data to augment flood models means that emergency services lack vital information to alert communities in a timely way when flood events arise, especially flash-floods. These problems will undoubtedly become more acute with climate change over the coming decades. With the advent of IoT equipment and digital twins, it is timely to rethink how warning systems operate. Geoscape recently provided 3D data on buildings for flood response in Queensland. Geoscape can work with partners to integrate 3D-built infrastructure data with sensor data to provide to enhance flood response capabilities.

Deliverables:

* Digital Twin for Catchments – ready for ingestion of high-resolution spatial and temporal data for enrichment to create a Real-Time Dynamic Digital Twin

* Methodology to locate sensors throughout a catchment to maximise data collection efficiency.

* Develop pipelines for integrating, analysing, and visualising real-time sensor data in the digital twin.

* Mobile Phone Application

* Design and develop a sensor management component in digital twin

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