¶ The myDEWETRA platform
Dewetra 2.0 is the evolution of the former integrated system Dewetra, operational at the Central Functional Centre of the National Civil Protection Department (DPC) c/o Prime Minister's Office since 2008, for the forecasting, monitoring and real-time surveillance of all the environmental risks.
The system has been developed by e CIMA Foundation and is technically and operationally certified.
The application provides, through a graphical interface, a high-resolution and continuously updated information, allowing the user to monitor weather events, to build detailed risk scenarios and evaluate the potential impact of the phenomena on communities and infrastructure.
Dewetra 2.0 allows each computer connected to the Internet the use of the integrated data, regardless the provider. The application manages, in fact, both the data provided by the National System of Functional Centres and the territorial and geospatial ones published as WMS services by other platforms.
Dewetra 2.0 is able to load and display geo-referenced static and dynamic layer, and allows the end users to browse the values of each gauging station and other more advanced observational tools, offering the interactive tools and features for the analysis of ongoing and past events.
¶ Application in Saint Lucia
myDEWETRA operates as frontend of the Hydromet Portal of Saint Lucia. The system, able to collect, archive and visualise hydrometeorological data, aims at supporting the activities of Saint Lucia Meteorological Service and Water Resource Management Agency.
The Hydromet Portal has been developed within the agreement between the Department of Economic Development of the Government of Saint Lucia and Fondazione CIMA for the “Supply of Integrated Data for Hydrometeorological Data and Information Dissemination (Installation and Configuration) Equipment, Software, Training and Manuals (Operating and Maintenance and Training)”, under the framework of the Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Project.
A public portal for accessing the last data and warnings is available at:
https://stlucia.mydewetra.cimafoundation.org/hydromet_portal/
¶ End User Manual
This part of the guide is divided into thematic sections organised as follows:
- Access to the platform
- User Interface
- Specific sections dedicated to Observations, Forecast Models and Static Layers
- Public Portal
¶ Functional Administration Manual
This part of the guide is dedicated to the administrator users of the MyDewetra platform, who will have the role of managing the set of tools that compose the system, with particular focus on the control of access to applications for the users on the one hand, and the publication of data on the Platform on the other hand.
Credentials to access the platform, the server and the tools are managed by Administrators at GoSL.
The manual is divided into thematic sections organised as follows:
- Admin Tool
- Step-by-step instructions to add/change/delete users for the frontend
- Publishing new data
- Static data
- Dynamic data
- Publication on Dewetra, using Django
- Step-by-step instructions to add/change/delete visualisations of specific data
- Connection with Delft-FEWS, backend of the system
- Adding and removing weather stations
- Frontend functioning monitoring
- Additional hydrological products (future development)
- Managing the Public Portal
- Editing the wiki guidelines
¶ Additional Material
This part of the guide provides additional material on:
¶ Help Desk
Questions, feedbacks and comments concerning Dewetra, can be addressed to: helpdesk@cimafoundation.org