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dc.contributor.authorMatsiko, Joshua
dc.date.accessioned2020-01-06T14:48:57Z
dc.date.available2020-01-06T14:48:57Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-26
dc.identifier.citationMatsiko, J. (2019). Development of a Flood Early Warning System with a mechanized Drawbridge. Unpublished undergraduate dissertation. Makerere University: Kampala, Uganda.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12281/8149
dc.descriptionA Flood Early Warning System with a drawbridgeen_US
dc.description.abstractClimate change occurs when the earth’s climate metamorphoses into new unpredictable & uncontrollable weather patterns. This change brings about its hazards such as famine, drought, heat waves, desertification, landslides and more specifically floods. River Nyamwamba located in Kasese district has been overflowing since 2013 bursting its banks flooding the areas of Kilembe sub-county, and in its life-time sweeping away a number of bridges along its flood plain. Despite the existence of flood early warning systems in Uganda, no method has been employed in this region to warn the residents on a potential of occurrence of floods. Our project seeks to come up with a timely & novel solution to alert the people living along the R.Nyamwamba flood plain on the possibility of occurrence of floods as well minimizing the impact of reconstructing the bridges that are washed away by these floods. In our project we first established the challenges faced by the current flood early warning system in Uganda precisely in Butaleja district and why its system not suited for use in Kasese. We carried out institutional visits to Kilembe Mines Limited and The Office of the Prime Minister, the Department of Disaster Preparedness and Management where we interacted with professionals in the field of flooding and its subsequent averting and mitigation protocol. We also read through various literature on the design of flood early warning systems and mechanized drawbridges. We discussed our findings on how to improve the current system, developed, integrated software and hardware into a working prototype of our proposed FEW system, tested and then gave further recommendations for future work that can be done to improve our system.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCenter for Technology, Design and Development (CTDD) Government of Ugandaen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectFlooden_US
dc.subjectFlood Warningen_US
dc.subjectWarning Systemen_US
dc.subjectDrawbridgeen_US
dc.titleDevelopment of a Flood Early Warning System with a mechanized Drawbridge.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US


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