Coupling GIS with Hydrologic and Hydraulic Flood Modelling

Francisco Nunes Correia, Filipe Castro Rego, Maria Da Grača Saraiva and Isabel Ramos

Water Resources Management: An International Journal, Published for the European Water Resources Association (EWRA), 1998, vol. 12, issue 3, 229-249

Abstract: Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been recognised as a powerful means to integrate and analyse data from various sources in the context of comprehensive floodplain management. As part of this comprehensive approach to floodplain management, it is very important to be able to predict the consequences of different scenarios in terms of flooded areas and associated risk. Hydrologic and hydraulic modelling plays a crucial role and there is much to gain in incorporating these modelling capabilities in GIS. This is still a rather complex task and research is being done on the full integration of these models. Interfacing between these models and GIS may be a very efficient way of overcoming the difficulties and getting very good results in terms of engineering practice. This paper presents results based on the use of Intergraph GIS coupled with Idrisi GIS. Using these two systems substantially increased the flexibility of using GIS as a tool for flood studies. A lumped (XSRAIN) and a distributed (OMEGA) hydrologic models were used to simulate flood hydrographs. The well known HEC-2 Hydraulic model was used to compute flooded areas. These models were applied in the Livramento catchment with very good results. The computation of flooded areas for different flood scenarios, and its representation in GIS, can be used in the assessment of affected property and associated damages. This is a very useful GIS-based approach to floodplain management. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1998

Keywords: flood analysis; flood hazard; GIS; hydraulic modelling; hydrologic modelling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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