ICHARM Newsletter Volume 5 No. 4・January 2011
Capacity Development

Short course "Early warning system for flood disaster mitigation" conducted(Hanoi, Vietnam, 6-7 November 2010)

ICHARM conducted a short training course, "Early warning system for flood disastermitigation," on 6-7 November at the Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology in Hanoi,Vietnam, with the cooperation of UNESCO Jakarta Office. This course was planned tofollow up the activities of the ex-trainees of ICHARM's training course and to further
enhance their technical abilities in flood management such as flood forecasting and early
warning. The participants were all engineers from Lao PDR, Mongolia, Myanmar, Thailand,
Malaysia, Vietnam and Japan, including nine invited ex-trainees and 28 researchers ofVietnam's Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology.
The first day included two lectures: "Early warning system for flood disaster mitigation" and"Outline of IFAS". After that, hands-on training on how to operate the IFAS system was given.
On the second day, after finishing up the rest of the hands-on training, trainees delivered
presentations on publication, dissemination and application of flood hazard maps. They
also discussed effective ways to distribute hazard maps in groups.
The course was considered very productive in that the participants experienced the latest
technology though the hands-on training and were given an opportunity to think about
the purposes and effective ways to distribute hazard maps through PCM-based discussions.

2010 年 11 月 6 ～ 7 日、ベトナム、ハノ イ に あ る Institute of Meteorology
and Hydrology で、UNESCO ジ ャ カ
ル タ 事 務 所 と の 連 携 の も と、Shortcourse “Early warning system for flood
disaster mitigation” を 開 催 し ま した。 本 コ ー ス は、ICHARM の 過 去 の研修生の活動をフォローアップするとともに、洪水予警報システムなどの洪水管理について参加者の専門能力を強化することを目的として開催したものであり、9 名の招聘研修生のほ か に Institute of Meteorology andHydrology の研究者 28 名が参加しました。
1 日 目 は、“Early warning system forflood disaster mitigation”、“Outline ofIFAS” の各講義を行い、その後 IFAS 演習を行いました。
2 日目は、まず IFAS 演習の続きを行い、その後各研修生によるプレゼンテー
ション ”Publication, dissemination andapplication of flood hazard map” や、ハザードマップの配布についてグループディスカッションを行いました。
参加者は、IFAS 演習を通して最先端の技術を経験したほか、PCM 手法を活用したグループディスカッションを通してハザードマップの公表の意義、方法等について考えることができたなど、非常に有意義なコースとなりました。

Group discussion▼（ 問 い 合 わ せ 先 ／ ICHARM 国 際 普 及▼Participants and staff

チーム：icharm@pwri.go.jp）(For inquiry, contact the ICHARM International Technical Exchange Team :training.icharm@pwri.go.jp)

IFAS FAQ
2. Project manager
The IFAS project manager is designed to work properly when the language and area of your computer's OS are set to English (U.S.). Make
sure that those settings are set rightly when using IFAS. If they are set to Thai, for example, data names and calculation periods will notshow properly because they will be determined based on the Buddhist calendar instead of the Western calendar. Also, if they are set toIndonesian, the system will recognize only the 'degree' value of latitudes and longitudes while leaving minutes and seconds unrecognized
due to the language’s use of comma ( , ), not dot ( . ) for decimal point. IFAS is yet incapable of accommodating those differences. So, for
now, we advise all users to check the language and area setting of your computer in advance of starting the IFAS program.
How to set the language and area of your computer
Windows XP: "start"-"control panel" - "area and language option"
Choose "English (U.S.)" from the area option tab.
Windows Vista Ultimate: "windows" - "control panel" - "area and language option"
Choose "English (U.S.)" from the current format

IFAS system can be downloaded from the following site freely: http://www.icharm.pwri.
go.jp/research/ifas/index.html(For inquiry, contact the ICHARM Hydrologic Engineering Research Team :suimon@pwri.go.jp)

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Buddhist calendar dates show up when the OS
is set to the Thai language and area.

Only 'degree' values show up when the OS is set
to Indonesian because the Indonesian setting
uses a comma, not a dot, for decimal point.