Improving Flood Risk Map Accuracy on Flood Risk Management

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2021) | Viewed by 394

Special Issue Editors

Department of Geography, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, lași, Romania
Interests: hydrology; geomatics; byogeography; land use; environment
Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, Science Research Department, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi (UAIC), St. Lascar Catargi 54, 700107 lași, Romania
Interests: natural hazards; hydrology; geographic information system; remote sensing; environment
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Dear Colleagues,

Floods are extreme risk phenomena that occur with high frequency and also induce risks emphasized by high magnitudes in inhabited areas around the globe. These destructive hydrological phenomena, associated with climate change, overlap with the growing trend of spatial development of inhabited areas, located mainly in floodplains or coastal areas. Thus, an improved flood management strategy is needed. This improvement can be accomplished by increasing the accuracy of hydrological risk maps and likely impact assessments, which are essential parts of river basin or coastal management from economic, social, and environmental perspectives.

The main purpose of this Special Issue is to publish scientific articles containing methodologies and techniques for increasing the accuracy of flood risk maps and crisis management. Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches are necessary to find, evaluate, and propose the most effective solutions and/or measures in the management of emergencies generated by the manifestation of probable floods. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

  • Inundation modeling: application of hydraulic modeling software (e.g., HEC-RAS, MIKE SHE) for 1D, 2D, combined 1D–2D, and 3D flood modeling;
  • Inundation mapping: application of satellite data (e.g., multi- and hyperspectral, radar, thermal, LiDAR) in flood mapping;
  • Integration of drone imagery: applications of UAVs for delineation of vulnerable areas and flood hazard assessment;
  • Integration of remote sensing, hydraulic modeling, and UAV techniques for improving flood hazard maps;
  • Flood frequency analysis: watershed- and/or regional-scale flood frequency analysis in the context of future climate, land use, and infrastructure development;
  • Flood frequency analysis: sea-level rise and coastal flooding in the context of future climate scenarios;
  • GIS‐based multicriteria analysis for flood risk management and decision-making;
  • Uncertainty in flood modeling and inundation mapping.

Dr. Cristian Constantin Stoleriu
Dr. Alin Mihu-Pintilie
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • flood mapping
  • flood risk maps
  • flood assessment index and indicators
  • spatial analysis
  • assessment of risk flood
  • management of risk flood
  • resilience of risk flood

Published Papers

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