augur.world 🌊

AUGUR is an initiative of the Swiss Agency for Development (SDC) humanitarian innovation accelerator “Innovation meets Practice” in 2021. Its vision is to provide state-of-the-art information on flood disasters and change which is open source, quality proven and feasible for humanitarian actors. These services reduce the financial and administrative costs to access climate expert knowledge.

AUGUR combines information from satellite imaginary, climate change and hydrological modelling. A first product is the development of a digital toolkit to assess the risk from heavy precipitation. Additional products will offer the calculation of riverine discharge and level of flooding for remote areas where no local and global trust worthful data is available.

• Access to the the AUGUR prototype toolkit
• Access to the Pitch Deck of the innovation accelerator
• Recent video of AUGUR used in a field excersice
• Related repositories
  • AUGUR Discharge Prototype
  • AUGUR Calibration and Verification

Tooling Info for augur.world

• JavaScript runtime: NodeJS
• Web Server Framework: ExpressJS
• Database: sqlite
• Web build tool: ParcelJS

Preperation

• Install nodeJS https://nodejs.org/ (>16)
• Install yarn package manager via npm (bundled with nodeJS)

npm install --global yarn

Installation

• Clone repository and go to client

cd augur.world
cd client

• Create .env file with content

cat -env "SERVER=http://localhost:3000/api"
npm install
npm run build
npm run start-server

• Note that http://localhost:3000/api is the endpoint for api, so if you start your server in a different port you need to set it accordingly, or in production, just set the actual url.
• Go to main folder, then

cd server

• Create .env file with content

PORT=3000
DB_PATH=/Users/gaskar/Documents/augur.sqlite
npm install
npm start

Run Application

pm2 start "npm run start-server" --name client
pm2 start --name server server.js

Open Application

Open your Web browser and go to http://localhost:1234/