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can be used in flood adaptation planning will assist in determining strategic investments and enhancing public … communication. A state-of-the-art review was conducted of commonly available flood modeling and impact assessment tools that could … be utilized for climate adaptation planning by municipalities. Assessment criteria such as flood modeling capabilities …
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losses due to these hazards indicate the continuing vulnerability of the region to flood and waterlogging. Management of … floods and waterlogging hazards in highly flood-prone regions of India, including Bihar state has been largely response … Information Systems-based assessment of flood and waterlogging vulnerability and risk in northern Bihar plains. Multitemporal …
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future coastal flood hazard, we set up a GIS-based flood model of northern Jakarta to simulate inundated area and value of … exposed assets. Under current conditions, estimated damage exposure to extreme coastal flood events with return periods of 100 … inundation scenario for assessing impacts associated with any coastal flood scenario. This allows for the identification of …
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flood of August 11, 2004. Actual land use has been obtained from forest management stand plans and classified satellite …-photo maps in the GIS environment. Since flow records of Kozdere are not available, flow values corresponding to different return … between 1992 and 2005. Since the physical factors are the same as they were during the 1985 rain, the flood after the 2004 …
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Understanding the physical vulnerability of buildings and infrastructure to natural hazards is an essential step in risk assessment for large cities. We have interpreted high spatial resolution images, conducted field surveys, and utilized numerical simulations, in order to assess vulnerability...
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. During the flooding season of1998, the Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC)of the Bangladesh Water Development Board … (BWDB)prepared daily flood bulletin and incorporatedinformation about rainfall, rise/fall of riverwater, flood forecasting … floodforecasting and warning. Identification of the causesand consequences of 1998 flood is the other pertinentarea of discussion of …
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GeographicInformation Systems. The greater availability ofdigital and geo-lithological data managed and storedinside GIS has implied the … different GIS-basedmethodologies for the estimate of a Length-Slope factorhas been developed with the aim of determining whichof …
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erosion scars, etc. A high-resolution DTM is able to detect the divergence/convergence of areas related to unchannelized …/channelized processes with better detail than a coarse DTM. In this work, we tested the performance of new methodologies for an objective … conducted using a high-resolution DTM and different smoothing factors for landform curvature calculation in order to test the …
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Estimating tsunami potential is anessential part of mitigating tsunami disasters. Weproposed a new method to estimate the far-fieldtsunami potential by assuming faultmodels on the Pacific Rim. We find thata tsunami that generates in the areas wherethere is no tsunami in the history can damagethe...
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after Hurricane Wilma in 2005. These results represent a simplistic GIS approximation of the phenomena in a specific urban …
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