1. 1 N C H C 2007 /09/28 Flood Grids Fang-Pang Lin PRAGMA Institute, NCSA, 28, Sept, 2007

2. 2 Typhoon and Flood invade Taiwan NCHC Using Grid to Support Water Resource Agency for Flood Mitigation

3. 3 River Gauging Station Pumping Station Estuary Rain Gauge River Bureau Radar Flood Control Gate Broadband TWAREN Data Storage Supercomputer Software & Data Base Ministry of Economics Water Resources Agency Central Weather Bureau Local Government Access Grid Communication Flood Warning & Mitigation Flood and Inundation Forecast Satellite Weather Information Remote Sensing Sensor Network Central Emergency Mitigation Center Reservoir VR Flood Mitigation Grid-Implementation Water Resource Agency 4 years Project

4. 4 Flood Mitigation Grid: Infrastructure Grid Platform Application Resource Planning Application Information Service: Web service Definition Protocol Flow Resource-oriented Computing Grid Data Grid Computer Storage Network Sensor networkAccess Grid Real-time/Communication-oriented SharingCustomization Middleware Applications: Flood Forecast, Warning, Response, Mitigation Interface NTU III NCHC WRA Visualization Instrument Sensor AudioVideo

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6. 6 Redundant Networks Water Resource AgencyNCHC Water Resource Bureau Water Management Office (WMO)

7. 7 Front End Message Exchange Computational Grid

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9. 9 TWAREN Flood Mitigation Grid: Video-Camera Sensors for Flood Monitoring Flood Mitigation Grid: Video-Camera Sensors for Flood Monitoring Real-time Monitoring River and Reservoir Stage ~110 cameras Remote Operation Data Recording and Searching

10. 10 Broadcasting System NCHC User Source Middleware User WRA TWAREN Source

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15. 15 Frequent flooding in Keelung River across urban area of Taipei City; recorded by a Flood Monitoring System of the Hazard Mitigation Grid of NCHC. The system consists of more than 100 video cameras to monitor the major rivers and reservoirs of Taiwan. CLEANER Poster Exhibition Overflow

16. 16 http://hmerg.nchc.org.tw/sensornet /

17. 17 WMO 1 WMO 3 WMO 2 Networks in Developing

18. 18 Toward Geo-Grid: Grid of Grids PRAGMA COSMIC Grid Source Chi-Yu Chiu and Chin Lin Flood Mitigation Grid CREON Typhoon Research GLEON GEO/GEON CLEANERCUAHSI GENI/CLD NSF Taichun g Hsinchu Tainan Taipei NSF NSC

19. 19 4D Geo-based Multi-Scale and Multi-Physics Virtual Reality Walk through Navigation for better understanding of environment Large scale geometry handling and synthesis with numerical simulation results