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Extreme weather conditions dashboard

datacite.subject.fosEngenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia Eletrotécnica, Eletrónica e Informáticapt_PT
datacite.subject.fosCiências Naturais::Ciências da Terra e do Ambientept_PT
datacite.subject.fosEngenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia do Ambientept_PT
dc.contributor.advisorQuintal, Filipe Magno de Gouveia
dc.contributor.advisorScuri, Sabrina
dc.contributor.authorFreitas, Luís Carlos Gonçalves
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-08T09:12:00Z
dc.date.available2022-02-08T09:12:00Z
dc.date.issued2022-01-07
dc.description.abstractOur planet Earth is changing due to the action of Man. Several factors influence the functioning of our planet, such as the constant need for human evolution, population growth and many others. Due to this, more and more we have extreme atmospheric events. There is an increasing need to become aware of this problem and take action both in terms of what we can do to prevent the destruction of our planet and prevent when these extreme events happen. The objective of this thesis is based on this last point. To combat the lack of a system in Portugal capable of helping the general public in extreme weather conditions, we created an atmospheric dashboard. The goals were that this dashboard was simple to use, open to the general public, with high spacial resolution (currently the smallest area used is the municipality, here we use an even smaller geographic area), flexible, and scalable so that new data sources or new variables could be added to the existing ones in the future without affecting the correct functioning of the system. This system uses meteorological data and relates them to other variables such as the age of the population, the thermal conditions of buildings, number of deaths, among others. The combination of all these data leads to the calculation of a risk index associated with each zone. The results show that the application has excellent portability, as it was easily installed on another device thanks to the virtualization offered by Docker. In terms of scalability, although did no tests at this level. However, during the application development, there was the need to add new data sources. Considering that the application is modularised, there was no problem with the existing or new data sources. Users see great potential in the application in terms of usability for prevention by the population during extreme weather events. Another positive aspect was that they liked the layout of the elements in the interface, namely the fact that the map area is the most prominent and most visible area in the dashboard. It also helped us get some feedback on what could be improved, such as using more distinct colors to present the level of risk or even improving the connection between the different views of the application. The results are positive and encourage further development of the application, applying the suggestions obtained from user testing.pt_PT
dc.identifier.tid202927822pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/4057
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.subjectExtreme weather eventspt_PT
dc.subjectWeather eventspt_PT
dc.subjectConditions dashboardpt_PT
dc.subjectWarning systemspt_PT
dc.subjectInformatics Engineeringpt_PT
dc.subject.pt_PT
dc.subjectFaculdade de Ciências Exatas e da Engenhariapt_PT
dc.titleExtreme weather conditions dashboardpt_PT
dc.typemaster thesis
dspace.entity.typePublication
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typemasterThesispt_PT
thesis.degree.nameMaster in Informatics Engineeringpt_PT

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