The large and ever-increasing amounts of multi-dimensional, multi-source, time-varying and geospatial digital information represent a major challenge for the analyst. The need to analyse and make decisions based on these information streams, often in time-critical situations, demands efficient, integrated and interactive tools that aid the user to explore, present, collaborate and communicate v...

s: Thematic Session Flood 1 THEMATIC SESSION B2: FLOOD Chairperson: Jayaseelam Chairman, Central Water Commission, New Delhi

Losses from environmental flood hazards have escalated in recent decades, prompting a reorientation of emergency management systems away from simple post event response. There is a noticeable change in policy, with more emphasis on loss reduction through mitigation, preparedness, and recovery projects and programs. Effective mitigation of losses from flood hazards requires hazard identification...

Floods are one of the most commonly occurring natural hazard events globally, and present a significant threat to UK from climate change. Operating since 2016, Flood Re is an industry-government initiative, set up with goal reforming flood insurance market in order provide universal, affordable cover for households. Principally providing reinsurance services insurers including mutualisation arr...

[1] Annual maximum peak discharge time series from 572 stations with a record of at least 75 years in the eastern United States are used to examine flood peak distributions from a regional perspective. The central issues of this study are (1) “mixtures” of flood peak distributions, (2) upper tail properties of flood peaks, (3) scaling properties of flood peaks, (4) spatial heterogeneities of fl...

Various regions in Europe have suffered from severe flooding over the last decennium. Earth observation techniques can contribute toward more accurate flood hazard modelling and they can be used to assess damage to residential properties, infrastructure and agricultural crops. For this study, detailed land cover maps were created by using IKONOS-2 high spatial resolution satellite imagery. The ...

This article describes the application of computational decision analytic techniques for a national policy decision. It constitutes an example of the increasing use of modern computational decision methods to assist in decision-making in society. An integrated flood catastrophe model is presented as well as some results of a case study made in the Upper Tisza region in north-eastern Hungary. Ba...

Floods are natural disasters which cause the most economic damage at the global level. Therefore, flood monitoring and damage estimation are very important for the population, authorities and insurance companies. The paper proposes an original solution, based on a hybrid network and complex image processing, to this problem. As first novelty, a multilevel system, with two components, terrestria...

First posted February 3, 2021 For additional information, contact: Director, Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Science CenterU.S. Geological Survey6460 Busch Blvd., Suite 100Columbus, OH 43229 The U.S. Survey (USGS) completed hydrologic and hydraulic analyses for selected reaches of the Grand River, Red Cedar Sycamore Creek near Lansing, Michigan, in cooperation with city Lansing. study comprised a 3.1-mil...

Natural disasters are increasing, possibly due to climate changes and changes in land use. Economic losses are escalating as a result of concentration of assets and population in high-risk areas. How to handle these economic losses in a fair way at the level of the individual property owners is the focus of our research. As a case study we selected the second largest river in Hungary that flows...