Flood Risk Assessment and Management

Flood Hazard Mapping

Author(s): Dawei Han

Pp: 103-106 (4)

DOI: 10.2174/978160805047511101010103

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Abstract

Flood hazard maps provide very useful information for the general public and flood risk management professionals. They are constructed from inundation maps of a defined return period. If flood vulnerability information is available, a flood hazard map may be converted into a flood risk map.


Keywords: hazard map, risk map, inundation map

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