hora.gv.at

Natural Hazard Overview & Risk Assessment Austria
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Geographic information system on environmental hazards
operator	Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism (BMLRT)
editorial staff	BMLFUW , TU Vienna , IAWG , ZAMG , GFZ , LFRZ
On-line	2006
http://www.hora.gv.at/

The website hora.gv.at ( English Natural Hazard Overview & Risk Assessment Austria , HORA for short , formerly eHORA) is the environmental warning service of the Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism .

history

After the floods in 2002 and 2005 , the state and the insurance companies decided to centrally record and process the spatial risk of natural disasters , especially floods , for the whole of Austria in order to be able to better estimate and evaluate the damage potential. This project flood risk zoning Austria  (HORA) follows the directive proposal of the EU Commission from the beginning of 2006 and anticipates the core requirement of directive 2007/60 / EC on the assessment and management of flood risks (EU framework directive) for increased information for the population. It was also decided to include information on hailstorms (according to Munich Re , hail damage accounts for 20% of all storm damage) and earthquake risks in a common framework. After the positive experiences that were already made with the Galtür avalanche disaster in Tyrol in 1999 with GIS- based data that was quickly accessible in the event of an incident and freely accessible to all departments involved and affected citizens, the development of an internet platform was a central concern of the project from the start.

eHORA

old logo

The zoning was online as eHORA from 2006, and also included the earthquake and hailstorm risk (the complete recording lasted until 2011).

Version 2.0 of eHORA has been online since 2014 and offers a modern user interface and more information: The project, which originally focused on water damage, has since been expanded as a "digital hazard map " into a comprehensive environmental warning service, and has since been operating as Natural H azard O verview & R isk Assessment A ustria ( German:  Overview of natural hazards and risk analysis ) to the acronym HORA.

Online offer HORA

On the HORA website, by entering an address, a search mask or a click of the map, a digital hazard map can be called up to the scale of the cadastral boundaries and properties, in which areas there is a potential risk of natural hazards or "failure of the existing protective measures (e.g. in the event of a dam burst)".

The WebGIS offer of flood risk zoning Austria is created and maintained by Section VII / 5 of the BMLFUW together with the Vienna University of Technology and IAWG, and operated at the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Computer Center (LFRZ). Data are also contributed by the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG) in cooperation with the Geoforschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ) and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA).

Today (as of 8/2014) the offer includes the following areas:

• Flood :
  • the hazard representation of flowing waters (original risk zoning for floods , including flooding zones of still waters )
  • the danger zone plan avalanches of the torrent and avalanche (die.wildbach)
  • current water levels
  • the Adresszonierung (overall risk according to zip code area , both absolute and relative to affected addresses)
• Earthquakes : Risk zoning and information on recent earthquakes (from ZAMG)
• Storm : Storm warnings and wind data (from ZAMG)
• Lightning strike : the ALDIS ( Austrian Lightning Detection & Information System ) lightning detection system , the hail risk map and an overview of recent hailstorm events (from the VVO)
• Snow : Snow load zoning with height calculation (standard values)
• Air emissions (only for registered users, by UBA)
• Weather forecasts (included from the ZAMG website)

The website thus gives an overview of many natural and anthropogenic natural hazards.

See also

• Federal and state warning centers
• Meteoalarm - common severe weather warning service of the European meteorological offices

proof

• Metadata / explanations of content. In: eHORA. BMLFUW / LFRZ, accessed on July 3, 2009 . 
• Hazard detection at the click of a mouse helps with flood protection. In: Press → Press Archive → 2005. Association of Insurance Companies Austria, November 22, 2005, accessed on July 3, 2009 (link no longer available). 
• June 1st, 2006 - "HORA" goes online! Hazard detection is now possible for everyone at any time at the click of a mouse. In: Archives 2006> Water. Ministry of Life press archive, June 1, 2006, archived from the original on June 13, 2008 ; Retrieved July 3, 2009 . 

1. ↑ HORA - Flood Risk Zoning: The floods in 2002, 2005, 2006 and 2007 are not individual events to be viewed in isolation ( memento of the original from August 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Association of Insurance Companies Austria, vvo.at, undated (accessed August 21, 2014).  
2. ↑ A new EU Floods Directive , ec.europa.eu (Engl.)
3. ↑ Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft, quoted after the distribution of the damage caused by storms by weather event (1980 to 2006). Statista, accessed March 23, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Hazard detection at the click of a mouse helps with flood protection. (No longer available online.) In: Press → Press archive → 2005. Association of Insurance Companies in Austria, November 22, 2005, archived from the original on August 22, 2012 ; accessed on July 3, 2009 (link no longer available). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. June 1st, 2006 - "HORA" goes online! Hazard detection is now possible for everyone at any time at the click of a mouse. In: Archives 2006> Water. Ministry of Life press archive, June 1, 2006, archived from the original on June 13, 2008 ; Retrieved July 3, 2009 .  
    
5. ↑ ^{a b} HORA, Version 2.0 , bmlfuw.gv.at, August 19, 2014 (accessed August 21, 2014).
6. ↑ Quotation gis.lebensministerium.at/eHORA ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Information on flood risk zoning in Austria , accessed July 3, 2009 (old website, link no longer available). 
7. ↑ Engineering hydrology, applied water management and geoinformatics (IAWG)
8. ↑ Agriculture, forestry and water management data center (LFRZ)
9. ↑ Metadata / Imprint. (No longer available online.) In: eHORA. BMLFUW / LFRZ, archived from the original on December 4, 2008 ; accessed on July 3, 2009 (link no longer available). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
10. ↑ ^{a b} Flood hazard map HORA- HOchwasserRisikozonierung Austria. (No longer available online.) In: Klima. ZAMG , archived from the original on July 16, 2012 ; accessed in 2009 (link no longer available). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ↑ Geo Research Center Potsdam (GFZ)