ABSTRACT
The world has been seeing an increase in the occurrence of floods due to changing climatic conditions and also due to manual actions like rapid and arbitrary urbanisation. Though it is hard to prevent floods, the losses, ecological as well as economical, it could be minimised if timely and appropriate measures are taken. Preventive measures like evacuation of people, livestock and other wildlife will help in handling floods, whose occurrence could be forecasted but to handle emergency flood situations it is very important to build the required infrastructure like emergency response and health care teams, medical and other resources needed to be distributed in flood affected areas. In order to allocate the resources, efficient algorithms have to be designed so that the resulting allocation is optimal and can have maximum impact in handling the situation. These algorithms form the backbone of the resource allocation task and to provide a smooth and easy interface with these algorithms, a simple and user-friendly Graphical User Interface (GUI) is needed. The developed GUI, (PARA-FM, Planning and Resource Allocation for Flood Management) will be able to handle all the inputs from the users that are needed by the algorithms and displays the output from these algorithms in a compact way. The user can modify the entries as per his/her need and the GUI generates the final output for the algorithm by converting user inputs into comma-separated-values (CSV) format. The tabular structure of GUI allows the user to transition between tabs for accessibility to different input tables which make the process perspicuous for the 101user. This GUI also features google maps API which is used for representation of flood affected regions with interactive options on the map such as, interactive markers, highlighted affected regions and details generated by the algorithm. The final results of resource allocation for both state and district level are then represented in the form of a stacked bar graph.
