A service for 22,000 municipalities
Predict Services (a subsidiary of Airbus D&S, Météo France and BRL-Ingénierie) works with 22,000 municipalities in France and the French overseas departments and territories, providing them with a flood risk prevention service in the event of a rainstorm forecast by Météo France.
Predict Service wanted to equip itself with a real-time 3D Web platform to help with flood risk management and prevention, and chose IGO to develop, host, maintain and upgrade it.
How IGO helps Predict with a collaborative 3D platform
To meet this need, IGO has developed a tailor-made solution and offers to host the platform.
The Predict Observer and Analyser tools developed are based on a database composed of various geographical data (IGN, Opendata…) and Météo France data.
The software processes files received in real time to analyze rainfall data:
- Query water “waves” and view archived waves (Predict Service has had all 15-minute waves since 2004).
- Calculation and display of rainfall totals. This allows you to display precipitation over a longer period (e.g. the amount of water that has fallen over the last 24 hours).
- Calculation and display of Hyetograms (graph representing the amount of rainfall over a given area) for a list of catchment areas.
- Management of historical references…
Why Predict chose IGO
The biggest challenge in this development is to process the data in real time, so that multiple analyses can be carried out across France without the processing taking more than 5 minutes (otherwise the new blade arrives before the previous one has been processed).
The use of the Skyline solution combined with IGO’s 3D expertise made it possible to overcome this constraint.
Summary of IGO’s strengths on this project:
- Strong 3D expertise and Skyline’s advanced functionalities, including the API
- High-performance associated hosting service (99.9% annual availability) for the whole of France, using the IGN data repository.
