Modelamiento digital de cuencas hídricas para la óptima ubicación de Sistemas de Alerta Temprana, que permita mitigar los efectos por riesgos naturales relacionados con inundaciones

Abstract

With the catastrophic events that occur in Colombia due to floods and droughts, it is necessary to define a general protocol that allows entities linked to the mitigation of such events to act effectively, in accordance with current regulations.

Therefore, it is necessary that the academy together with the private and state sector formulate different strategies that are integrated in an inter-institutional way, allowing to act efficiently, from the use of technologies and modeling of these natural events.

The Early Warning Systems, better known as SAT, are the most widely used mechanisms today worldwide that allow the community, local and regional authorities to act in a coordinated manner, avoiding possible tragedies over time, taking the immediate measure as their support of flood flows or scarcity of water resources.

The research proposed will allow the academy, private companies and local authorities to be integrated into a project of interest to the community in general.

The project will be focused on allowing the modeling of natural events of possible floods that allow designing a network of stations that work as a system that issues alerts and management recommendations in real time, based on meteorological and hydrological variables, both observed and simulated.

Alerts are generated by evaluating and using all the relevant information available, reporting on existing risks or negative impacts in the near future in some area of ​​interest.

For this research there will be the support of a private company expert in water issues and the support of students who will carry out their degree projects from the Specialization in Territorial Management and Appraisals or the Civil or Environmental Engineering.

As the results are generalized and socialized and the different municipalities internalize and apply the proposed developments, the great beneficiary of the project will be the community that inhabits those areas at high risk from flooding.