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Flood Mapping
Prabhas Ranjan Gupta30th November 2010
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Introduction• Floods are the leading cause of natural disaster
losses in the US (NRC, 2009).
• Need for more accurate flood maps.
• FEMA FIRMs
• Flood depth and flood extent
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Precipitation data
Rainfall-Runoff Model
Hydraulic model
Flood surface elevation
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Terrain Flood Map2
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• Rainfall runoff model: HEC-HMS– Precipitation data entry: manual/HEC-DSS
• DSS Visual Utility Engine (DSSVue): WaterML plug-in
• Precipitation data: National Weather Service (NWS)– WaterML format– HydroDesktop, HydroExcel: issues
• Data source: CRWR Map Service
WaterML DSS
Precipitation data input
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WaterML plug-in: issues
(Data for representation purposes only)
Actual data
After import
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Creating a flood map: inputs
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• HEC-GeoRAS: extension for ArcGIS• HEC-GeoRAS doesn’t support ArcGIS 10 yet.
HEC-RAS RAS Mapper
ArcMap
Flood map
DEM
BasemapFlood extent
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‘Burning’ buildings elevations into the DEM
• Building footprints from the City of Austin. (ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/GIS-Data/Regional/coa_gis.html)
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(screenshot from ArcScene 10)
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Future work: real-time flood mapping
• Can floods be mapped as they occur?
• Stage data from gages available in real-time.
• Interpolation of water surface elevations.
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References1. NRC, 2009. Mapping the Zone: Improving Flood Map Accuracy, National Academies
Press, Washington, D.C., 136pp.; available online at <http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php ?record _id=12573#toc >.
2. City of Austin GIS Data sets: < ftp://ftp.ci.austin.tx.us/GIS-Data/Regional/coa_gis.html >