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    FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer Viewer

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    Updated Mar 29, 2023
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    ShareGIS NY (2023). FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer Viewer [Dataset]. https://data.gis.ny.gov/datasets/fema-national-flood-hazard-layer-viewer
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    Mar 29, 2023
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    Description

    The National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) is a geospatial database that contains current effective flood hazard data. FEMA provides the flood hazard data to support the National Flood Insurance Program. You can use the information to better understand your level of flood risk and type of flooding.The NFHL is made from effective flood maps and Letters of Map Change (LOMC) delivered to communities. NFHL digital data covers over 90 percent of the U.S. population. New and revised data is being added continuously. If you need information for areas not covered by the NFHL data, there may be other FEMA products which provide coverage for those areas.In the NFHL Viewer, you can use the address search or map navigation to locate an area of interest and the NFHL Print Tool to download and print a full Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) or FIRMette (a smaller, printable version of a FIRM) where modernized data exists. Technical GIS users can also utilize a series of dedicated GIS web services that allow the NFHL database to be incorporated into websites and GIS applications. For more information on available services, go to the NFHL GIS Services User Guide.You can also use the address search on the FEMA Flood Map Service Center (MSC) to view the NFHL data or download a FIRMette. Using the “Search All Products” on the MSC, you can download the NFHL data for a County or State in a GIS file format. This data can be used in most GIS applications to perform spatial analyses and for integration into custom maps and reports. To do so, you will need GIS or mapping software that can read data in shapefile format.FEMA also offers a download of a KMZ (keyhole markup file zipped) file, which overlays the data in Google Earth™. For more information on using the data in Google Earth™, please see Using the National Flood Hazard Layer Web Map Service (WMS) in Google Earth™.

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    JRC Global River Flood Hazard Maps Version 1

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    Updated Mar 16, 2024
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    Joint Research Centre (2024). JRC Global River Flood Hazard Maps Version 1 [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.advwatres.2016.05.002
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    Mar 16, 2024
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    Joint Research Centre
    Time period covered
    Mar 16, 2024
    Area covered
    Earth
    Description

    The global river flood hazard maps are a gridded data set representing inundation along the river network, for seven different flood return periods (from 1-in-10-years to 1-in-500-years). The input river flow data for the new maps are produced by means of the open-source hydrological model LISFLOOD, while inundation simulations are performed with the hydrodynamic model LISFLOOD-FP. The extent comprises the entire world with the exception of Greenland and Antarctica and small islands with river basins smaller than 500 km^2. Cell values indicate water depth (in meters). The maps can be used to assess the exposure of population and economic assets to river floods, and to perform flood risk assessments. The dataset is created as part of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service. Note: This dataset may have missing tiles. This collection will be eventually be replaced by v2.1 once it's updated by the provider.

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    Implementation of a Surface Water Extent Model using Cloud-Based Remote...

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    Updated Jul 6, 2024
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    U.S. Geological Survey (2024). Implementation of a Surface Water Extent Model using Cloud-Based Remote Sensing - Code and Maps [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/implementation-of-a-surface-water-extent-model-using-cloud-based-remote-sensing-code-and-m
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    Description

    This data release comprises the raster data files and code necessary to perform all analyses presented in the associated publication. The 16 TIF raster data files are classified surface water maps created using the Dynamic Surface Water Extent (DSWE) model implemented in Google Earth Engine using published technical documents. The 16 tiles cover the country of Cambodia, a flood-prone country in Southeast Asia lacking a comprehensive stream gauging network. Each file includes 372 bands. Bands represent surface water for each month from 1988 to 2018, and are stacked from oldest (Band 1 - January 1988) to newest (Band 372 - December 2018). DSWE classifies pixels unobscured by cloud, cloud shadow, or snow into five categories of ground surface inundation; in addition to not-water (class 0) and water (class 1), the DSWE algorithm distinguishes pixels that are less distinctly inundated (class 2: “moderate confidence”), comprise a mixture of vegetation and water (class 3: “potential wetland”), or are of marginal validity (class 4: “water or wetland - low confidence”). Class 9 is applied to classify clouds, shadows and hill shade. Two additional documents accompany the raster image files and XML metadata. The first provides a key representing the general location of each raster file. The second file includes all Google Earth Engine Javascript code, which can be used online (https://code.earthengine.google.com/) to replicate the monthly DSWE map time series for Cambodia, or for any other location on Earth. The code block includes comments to explain how each step works. These data support the following publication: These data support the following publication: Soulard, C.E., Walker, J.J., and Petrakis, R.E., 2020, Implementation of a Surface Water Extent Model in Cambodia using Cloud-Based Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing, v. 12, no. 6, p. 984, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12060984.

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    North Carolina Effective Flood Zones

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    Updated May 6, 2019
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    State of North Carolina - Emergency Management (2019). North Carolina Effective Flood Zones [Dataset]. https://www.nconemap.gov/maps/a178aae74ee347d786e853e5a442eea2
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    May 6, 2019
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    State of North Carolina - Emergency Management
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    Description

    North Carolina Effective Flood zones: In 2000, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designated North Carolina a Cooperating Technical Partner State, formalizing an agreement between FEMA and the State to modernize flood maps. This partnership resulted in creation of the North Carolina Floodplain Mapping Program (NCFMP). As a CTS, the State assumed primary ownership and responsibility of the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) for all North Carolina communities as part of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). This project includes conducting flood hazard analyses and producing updated, Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps (DFIRMs). Floodplain management is a process that aims to achieve reduced losses due to flooding. It takes on many forms, but is realized through a series of federal, state, and local programs and regulations, in concert with industry practice, to identify flood risk, implement methods to protect man-made development from flooding, and protect the natural and beneficial functions of floodplains. FIRMs are the primary tool for state and local governments to mitigate areas of flooding. Individual county databases can be downloaded from https://fris.nc.gov Updated Jan 17th, 2025.

  5. Flood Hazard Maps using Google Earth Engine: Thrace and Thessaly River Basin...

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    Updated Oct 25, 2024
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    Alexandra Gemitzi; Alexandra Gemitzi; Vasilis Bellos; Vasilis Bellos (2024). Flood Hazard Maps using Google Earth Engine: Thrace and Thessaly River Basin Districts (Greece) [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13992856
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    Oct 25, 2024
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    Zenodohttp://zenodo.org/
    Authors
    Alexandra Gemitzi; Alexandra Gemitzi; Vasilis Bellos; Vasilis Bellos
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Thrace, Greece, Thessalia
    Description

    This dataset contains three raster files with a spatial resolution of 10 m, derived by the Google Earth Engine:

    1) DynamicWorld_Floods_2015_2023.tif: Number of days flooded for the River Basin District of Thrace (Greece) starting from 2015 until 2023

    2) Thessaly_2015_August2023.tiff: Number of days flooded for the River Basin District of Thessaly (Greece) starting from 2015 until August 2023

    3) Thessaly_2015_now.tiff: Number of days flooded for the River Basin District of Thessaly (Greece) starting from 2015 until January 2024

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    Data from: Data specification.

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    Updated Jun 1, 2023
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    Varun Tiwari; Vinay Kumar; Mir Abdul Matin; Amrit Thapa; Walter Lee Ellenburg; Nishikant Gupta; Sunil Thapa (2023). Data specification. [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237324.t001
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    Jun 1, 2023
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    Authors
    Varun Tiwari; Vinay Kumar; Mir Abdul Matin; Amrit Thapa; Walter Lee Ellenburg; Nishikant Gupta; Sunil Thapa
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Data specification.

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    Water inundated area observed in different dates data.

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    Updated Jun 7, 2023
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    Varun Tiwari; Vinay Kumar; Mir Abdul Matin; Amrit Thapa; Walter Lee Ellenburg; Nishikant Gupta; Sunil Thapa (2023). Water inundated area observed in different dates data. [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237324.t002
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    Jun 7, 2023
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    Authors
    Varun Tiwari; Vinay Kumar; Mir Abdul Matin; Amrit Thapa; Walter Lee Ellenburg; Nishikant Gupta; Sunil Thapa
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Description

    Water inundated area observed in different dates data.

  8. Infrastructure Climate Resilience Assessment Data Starter Kit for Ghana

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    Updated Dec 20, 2024
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    Tom Russell; Tom Russell; Diana Jaramillo; Chris Nicholas; Fred Thomas; Fred Thomas; Raghav Pant; Raghav Pant; Jim W. Hall; Jim W. Hall; Diana Jaramillo; Chris Nicholas (2024). Infrastructure Climate Resilience Assessment Data Starter Kit for Ghana [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14536877
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    Dec 20, 2024
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    Zenodohttp://zenodo.org/
    Authors
    Tom Russell; Tom Russell; Diana Jaramillo; Chris Nicholas; Fred Thomas; Fred Thomas; Raghav Pant; Raghav Pant; Jim W. Hall; Jim W. Hall; Diana Jaramillo; Chris Nicholas
    License

    Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Ghana
    Description

    This starter data kit collects extracts from global, open datasets relating to climate hazards and infrastructure systems.

    These extracts are derived from global datasets which have been clipped to the national scale (or subnational, in cases where national boundaries have been split, generally to separate outlying islands or non-contiguous regions), using Natural Earth (2023) boundaries, and is not meant to express an opinion about borders, territory or sovereignty.

    Human-induced climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of climate and weather extremes. This is causing widespread, adverse impacts to societies, economies and infrastructures. Climate risk analysis is essential to inform policy decisions aimed at reducing risk. Yet, access to data is often a barrier, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Data are often scattered, hard to find, in formats that are difficult to use or requiring considerable technical expertise. Nevertheless, there are global, open datasets which provide some information about climate hazards, society, infrastructure and the economy. This "data starter kit" aims to kickstart the process and act as a starting point for further model development and scenario analysis.

    Hazards:

    • coastal and river flooding (Ward et al, 2020; Baugh et al, 2024)
    • extreme heat and drought (Russell et al 2023, derived from Lange et al, 2020)
    • tropical cyclone wind speeds (Russell 2022, derived from Bloemendaal et al 2020 and Bloemendaal et al 2022)

    Exposure:

    • population (Schiavina et al, 2023)
    • built-up area (Pesaresi et al, 2023)
    • roads (OpenStreetMap, 2023)
    • railways (OpenStreetMap, 2023)
    • power plants (Global Energy Observatory et al, 2018)
    • power transmission lines (Arderne et al, 2020)

    Contextual information:

    • elevation (European Union and ESA, 2021)
    • land-use and land cover (Copernicus Climate Change Service and Climate Data Store, 2019)
    • administrative boundaries from geoBoundaries (Runfola et al., 2020)

    The spatial intersection of hazard and exposure datasets is a first step to analyse vulnerability and risk to infrastructure and people.

    To learn more about related concepts, there is a free short course available through the Open University on Infrastructure and Climate Resilience. This overview of the course has more details.

    These Python libraries may be a useful place to start analysis of the data in the packages produced by this workflow:

    • snkit helps clean network data
    • nismod-snail is designed to help implement infrastructure exposure, damage and risk calculations

    The open-gira repository contains a larger workflow for global-scale open-data infrastructure risk and resilience analysis.

    For a more developed example, some of these datasets were key inputs to a regional climate risk assessment of current and future flooding risks to transport networks in East Africa, which has a related online visualisation tool at https://east-africa.infrastructureresilience.org/ and is described in detail in Hickford et al (2023).

    References

    • Arderne, Christopher, Nicolas, Claire, Zorn, Conrad, & Koks, Elco E. (2020). Data from: Predictive mapping of the global power system using open data [Dataset]. In Nature Scientific Data (1.1.1, Vol. 7, Number Article 19). Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3628142
    • Baugh, Calum; Colonese, Juan; D'Angelo, Claudia; Dottori, Francesco; Neal, Jeffrey; Prudhomme, Christel; Salamon, Peter (2024): Global river flood hazard maps. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: data.europa.eu/89h/jrc-floods-floodmapgl_rp50y-tif
    • Bloemendaal, Nadia; de Moel, H. (Hans); Muis, S; Haigh, I.D. (Ivan); Aerts, J.C.J.H. (Jeroen) (2020): STORM tropical cyclone wind speed return periods. 4TU.ResearchData. [Dataset]. DOI: 10.4121/12705164.v3
    • Bloemendaal, Nadia; de Moel, Hans; Dullaart, Job; Haarsma, R.J. (Reindert); Haigh, I.D. (Ivan); Martinez, Andrew B.; et al. (2022): STORM climate change tropical cyclone wind speed return periods. 4TU.ResearchData. [Dataset]. DOI: 10.4121/14510817.v3
    • Copernicus Climate Change Service, Climate Data Store, (2019): Land cover classification gridded maps from 1992 to present derived from satellite observation. Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) Climate Data Store (CDS). DOI: 10.24381/cds.006f2c9a (Accessed on 09-AUG-2024)
    • Copernicus DEM - Global Digital Elevation Model (2021) DOI: 10.5270/ESA-c5d3d65 (produced using Copernicus WorldDEM™-90 © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA; all rights reserved)
    • Global Energy Observatory, Google, KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Enipedia, World Resources Institute. (2018) Global Power Plant Database. Published on Resource Watch and Google Earth Engine; resourcewatch.org/
    • Hickford et al (2023) Decision support systems for resilient strategic transport networks in low-income countries – Final Report. Available online: https://transport-links.com/hvt-publications/final-report-decision-support-systems-for-resilient-strategic-transport-networks-in-low-income-countries
    • Lange, S., Volkholz, J., Geiger, T., Zhao, F., Vega, I., Veldkamp, T., et al. (2020). Projecting exposure to extreme climate impact events across six event categories and three spatial scales. Earth's Future, 8, e2020EF001616. DOI: 10.1029/2020EF001616
    • Natural Earth (2023) Admin 0 Map Units, v5.1.1. [Dataset] Available online: www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/10m-cultural-vectors/10m-admin-0-details
    • OpenStreetMap contributors, Russell T., Thomas F., nismod/datapkg contributors (2023) Road and Rail networks derived from OpenStreetMap. [Dataset] Available at global.infrastructureresilience.org
    • Pesaresi M., Politis P. (2023): GHS-BUILT-S R2023A - GHS built-up surface grid, derived from Sentinel2 composite and Landsat, multitemporal (1975-2030) European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) PID: data.europa.eu/89h/9f06f36f-4b11-47ec-abb0-4f8b7b1d72ea, doi:10.2905/9F06F36F-4B11-47EC-ABB0-4F8B7B1D72EA
    • Runfola D, Anderson A, Baier H, Crittenden M, Dowker E, Fuhrig S, et al. (2020) geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231866. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231866.
    • Russell, T., Nicholas, C., & Bernhofen, M. (2023). Annual probability of extreme heat and drought events, derived from Lange et al 2020 (Version 2) [Dataset]. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8147088
    • Schiavina M., Freire S., Carioli A., MacManus K. (2023): GHS-POP R2023A - GHS population grid multitemporal (1975-2030). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) PID: data.europa.eu/89h/2ff68a52-5b5b-4a22-8f40-c41da8332cfe, doi:10.2905/2FF68A52-5B5B-4A22-8F40-C41DA8332CFE
    • Ward, P.J., H.C. Winsemius, S. Kuzma, M.F.P. Bierkens, A. Bouwman, H. de Moel, A. Díaz Loaiza, et al. (2020) Aqueduct Floods Methodology. Technical Note. Washington, D.C.: World Resources Institute. Available online at: www.wri.org/publication/aqueduct-floods-methodology.
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    Ona River Basin Flood Risk Model

    • africageoportal.com
    • hub.arcgis.com
    Updated Jun 18, 2022
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    Africa GeoPortal (2022). Ona River Basin Flood Risk Model [Dataset]. https://www.africageoportal.com/maps/7589f9bb73cc4adbb8ffd31b1cad03c4
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    Jun 18, 2022
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    Africa GeoPortal
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    This web map is designed to provide an enriched geospatial platform to ascertain the flood potential status of our local place of residence and other land-use activities. Information on the flood risk distribution can be extracted by 5 major magnitudes (very high, high, moderate, low, and very low). The buildings, roads, and rail tracks that are susceptible to flooding based on the identified magnitudes are also included in the web map. In addition, the historical or flood inventory layer, which contains information on the previous flooding disasters that have occurred within the river basin, is included.

    This web map is the result of extensive research using available data, open source and custom datasets that are extremely reliable.The collaborative study was done by Dr. Felix Ndidi Nkeki (GIS-Unit, BEDC Electricity PLC, 5, Akpakpava Road, Benin City, Nigeria and Department of Geography and Regional Planning, University of Benin, Nigeria), Dr. Ehiaguina Innocent Bello (National Space Research and Development Agency, Obasanjo Space Centre, FCT-Abuja, Nigeria) and Dr. Ishola Ganiy Agbaje (Centre for Space Science Technology Education, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria). The study results are published in a reputable leading world-class journal known as the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. The methodology, datasets, and full results of the study can be found in the paper.

    The major sources of data are: ALOS PALSAR DEM; soil data from Harmonised World Soil Database-Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO); land-use and surface geologic datasets from CSSTE, OAU Campus, Ile-Ife, Nigeria and Ibadan Urban Flood Management Project (IUFMP), Oyo State, Nigeria; transport network data was extracted from Open Street Map; building footprint data was mined from Google open building; and finally, rainfall grid data was downloaded from the Centre for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (CHRS).

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    Dakar (Senegal) - Flood Extent Maps 2009-2018 (ESA EO4SD-Urban) - Dataset -...

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    Updated Nov 28, 2023
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    (2023). Dakar (Senegal) - Flood Extent Maps 2009-2018 (ESA EO4SD-Urban) - Dataset - ENERGYDATA.INFO [Dataset]. https://energydata.info/dataset/dakar-senegal-flood-extent-maps-2009-2018-esa-eo4sd-urban
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    Nov 28, 2023
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Senegal, Dakar
    Description

    For the urban and peri-urban area of Dakar, two main flood scenarios have to be considered: a. Fluvial floods b. Floods triggered by rainfall stagnation after heavy local cloudbursts Scenario a.) and b.) may occur at the same time. The shapefile includes 6 extents of floods between 2009 and 2018 based on HR optical imagery and 7 extents of floods based on visual interpretation of VHR data as available in GoogleEarth.

  11. ARC Code TI: Crisis Mapping Toolkit

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    • data.staging.idas-ds1.appdat.jsc.nasa.gov
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    Updated Apr 11, 2025
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    Ames Research Center (2025). ARC Code TI: Crisis Mapping Toolkit [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/arc-code-ti-crisis-mapping-toolkit
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    Apr 11, 2025
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    The Crisis Mapping Toolkit (CMT) is a collection of tools for processing geospatial data (images, satellite data, etc.) into cartographic products that improve understanding of large-scale crises, such as natural disasters. The cartographic products produced by CMT include flood inundation maps, maps of damaged or destroyed structures, forest fire maps, population density estimates, etc. CMT is designed to rapidly process large-scale data using Google Earth Engine and other geospatial data systems.

  12. DIGITAL FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP DATABASE, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, USA

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    Federal Emergency Management Agency (Point of Contact) (2023). DIGITAL FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAP DATABASE, COLUMBIA COUNTY, OREGON, USA [Dataset]. https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/digital-flood-insurance-rate-map-database-columbia-county-oregon-usa
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    Nov 8, 2023
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    Federal Emergency Management Agencyhttp://www.fema.gov/
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    Columbia County, United States, Oregon
    Description

    The Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) Database depicts flood risk Information And supporting data used to develop the risk data. The primary risk; classificatons used are the 1-percent-annual-chance flood event, the 0.2-percent- annual-chance flood event, and areas of minimal flood risk. The DFIRM Database is derived from Flood Insurance Studies (FISs), previously published Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs), flood hazard analyses performed in support of the FISs and FIRMs, and new mapping data, where available. The FISs and FIRMs are published by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The file is georeferenced to earth's surface using the UTM projection and coordinate system. The specifications for the horizontal control of DFIRM data files are consistent with those required for mapping at a scale of 1:12,000.

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    Land Use Changes in The Mississippi River Basin Floodplains: 1941 to 2000...

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    Updated Dec 30, 2023
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    Adnan Rajib; Qianjin Zheng; Heather E. Golden; Charles R. Lane; Qiusheng Wu; Jay R. Christensen; Ryan Morrison; Fernando Nardi; Antonio Annis (2023). Land Use Changes in The Mississippi River Basin Floodplains: 1941 to 2000 (version 1) [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.4211/hs.41a3a9a9d8e54cc68f131b9a9c6c8c54
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    Dec 30, 2023
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    Adnan Rajib; Qianjin Zheng; Heather E. Golden; Charles R. Lane; Qiusheng Wu; Jay R. Christensen; Ryan Morrison; Fernando Nardi; Antonio Annis
    Time period covered
    Jan 1, 1940 - Dec 31, 2000
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    Description

    This work has been published in the Nature Scientific Data. Suggested citation: Rajib et al. The changing face of floodplains in the Mississippi River Basin detected by a 60-year land use change dataset. Nature Scientific Data 8, 271 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-01048-w

    Here, we present the first-available dataset that quantifies land use change along the floodplains of the Mississippi River Basin (MRB) covering 60 years (1941-2000) at 250-m resolution. The MRB is the fourth largest river basin in the world (3.3 million sq km) comprising 41% of the United States and draining into the Gulf of Mexico, an area with an annually expanding and contracting hypoxic zone resulting from basin-wide over-enrichment of nutrients. The basin represents one of the most engineered systems in the world, and includes complex web of dams, levees, floodplains, and dikes. This new dataset reveals the heterogenous spatial extent of land use transformations in MRB floodplains. The domination transition of floodplains has been from natural ecosystems (e.g. wetlands or forests) to agricultural use. A steady increase in developed land use within the MRB floodplains was also evident.

    To maximize the reuse of this dataset, our contributions also include four unique products: (i) a Google Earth Engine interactive map visualization interface: https://gishub.org/mrb-floodplain (ii) a Google-based Python code that runs in any internet browser: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1vmIaUCkL66CoTv4rNRIWpJXYXp4TlAKd?usp=sharing (iii) an online tutorial with visualizations facilitating classroom application of the code: https://serc.carleton.edu/hydromodules/steps/241489.html (iv) an instructional video showing how to run the code and partially reproduce the floodplain land use change dataset: https://youtu.be/wH0gif_y15A

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    Data from: Unravelling flash flood dynamics of Song watershed, Doon Valley:...

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    Updated Dec 12, 2024
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    Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi; Praveen Kumar Thakur; Pankaj Ramji Dhote; Andrew Kruczkiewicz; Mayank Upadhyay; Antony Joh Moothedan; Mps Bisht; Raghavendra Pratap Singh (2024). Unravelling flash flood dynamics of Song watershed, Doon Valley: key insights for floodplain management [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.26482112.v1
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    Dec 12, 2024
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    Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi; Praveen Kumar Thakur; Pankaj Ramji Dhote; Andrew Kruczkiewicz; Mayank Upadhyay; Antony Joh Moothedan; Mps Bisht; Raghavendra Pratap Singh
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    The Himalayan foothills are highly prone to rainfall induced flash floods. This research focuses on the August 19–20, 2022 flash flood event in Song watershed of Doon valley, Uttarakhand caused significant damages to buildings and a road bridge. The study aims to assess the flood intensity through flood simulation in a semi-distributed hydrological model by utilizing rainfall data, land use and soil data. Further, the flood hydrographs generated through hydrological modelling were used to simulate hydrodynamic model to estimate flood depth. Pre and post-flood inundation assessments were conducted using PlanetScope and Sentinel-1 imagery. Furthermore, development activities on river courses were analyzed utilizing Google earth and Bing maps high resolution imagery. Cumulative rainfall observations revealed 344 mm rainfall in Rishikesh and 225 mm in Sahastradhara on 19–20 August for the 24 hrs, contributed in a peak flood discharge 2679 m3/s at the Rishikesh outlet. The simulated flood depth depicted 4.81 m flood depth at the damaged Thano-Bhogpur bridge. The PlanetScope satellite imagery showed 182 m expansion in the cross-sectional width of river at Maldevta after the flood. A 5.36 sq. km. flood area observed throughout the entire Song catchment in two days post event Sentinel-1 imagery. Analysis of high-resolution imageries revealed increasing development activities in floodplains of the catchment, which got affected by flood. The findings indicate urgent need of floodplain management by implementing comprehensive flood risk management plans including early warning systems, land-use regulations based on flood hazard zonation and flood resilient infrastructure to mitigate future flood exposure to society.

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    GIS-based flood hazard mapping using relative frequency ratio method: A case...

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    Updated May 30, 2023
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    Kashif Ullah; Jiquan Zhang (2023). GIS-based flood hazard mapping using relative frequency ratio method: A case study of Panjkora River Basin, eastern Hindu Kush, Pakistan [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229153
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    May 30, 2023
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    Kashif Ullah; Jiquan Zhang
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Pakistan, Panjkora, Hindu Kush
    Description

    Flood is the most devastating and prevalent disaster among all-natural disasters. Every year, flood claims hundreds of human lives and causes damage to the worldwide economy and environment. Consequently, the identification of flood-vulnerable areas is important for comprehensive flood risk management. The main objective of this study is to delineate flood-prone areas in the Panjkora River Basin (PRB), eastern Hindu Kush, Pakistan. An initial extensive field survey and interpretation of Landsat-7 and Google Earth images identified 154 flood locations that were inundated in 2010 floods. Of the total, 70% of flood locations were randomly used for building a model and 30% were used for validation of the model. Eight flood parameters including slope, elevation, land use, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), topographic wetness index (TWI), drainage density, and rainfall were used to map the flood-prone areas in the study region. The relative frequency ratio was used to determine the correlation between each class of flood parameter and flood occurrences. All of the factors were resampled into a pixel size of 30×30 m and were reclassified through the natural break method. Finally, a final hazard map was prepared and reclassified into five classes, i.e., very low, low, moderate, high, very high susceptibility. The results of the model were found reliable with area under curve values for success and prediction rate of 82.04% and 84.74%, respectively. The findings of this study can play a key role in flood hazard management in the target region; they can be used by the local disaster management authority, researchers, planners, local government, and line agencies dealing with flood risk management.

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    Annual Subsurface Drainage Map (Red River of the North Basin; Cho et al.,...

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    Updated Dec 5, 2021
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    Eunsang Cho; Jennifer M. Jacobs; Xinhua Jia; Simon Kraatz (2021). Annual Subsurface Drainage Map (Red River of the North Basin; Cho et al., 2019) [Dataset]. https://search.dataone.org/view/sha256%3A461ffc294b92c9ad44b10ff0b550fc9d9ae8645eadc7b1b12f75bc616efab924
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    Dec 5, 2021
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    Hydroshare
    Authors
    Eunsang Cho; Jennifer M. Jacobs; Xinhua Jia; Simon Kraatz
    Time period covered
    Jan 1, 2009 - Jan 1, 2017
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    Description

    This resource is a repository of the annual subsurface drainage (so-called "Tile Drainage") maps for the Bois de Sioux Watershed (BdSW), Minnesota and the Red River of the North Basin (RRB), separately. The RRB maps cover a 101,500 km2 area in the United States, which overlies portions of North Dakota, South Daokta, and Minnesota. The maps provide annual subsurface drainage system maps for recent four years, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2017 (In 2017, the subsurface drainage maps including the Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar as an additional input are also provided). Please see Cho et al. (2019) in Water Resources Research (WRR) for full details.

    Map Metadata (Proj=longlat +datum=WGS84) Raster value key: 0 = NoData, masked by non-agricultural areas (e.g. urban, water, forest, or wetland land) and high gradient cultivated crop areas (slope > 2%) based on the USGS National Land Cover Dataset (NLCD) and the USGS National Elevation Dataset 1 = Undrained (UD) 2 = Subsurface Drained (SD)

    Preferred citation: Cho, E., Jacobs, J. M., Jia, X., & Kraatz, S. (2019). Identifying Subsurface Drainage using Satellite Big Data and Machine Learning via Google Earth Engine. Water Resources Research, 55. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024892

    Corresponding author: Eunsang Cho (ec1072@wildcats.unh.edu)

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    Spatial distribution data set of wetlands in Baiyangdian Basin

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    Updated Jan 20, 2021
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    Yan Xin; Niu Zhenguo (2021). Spatial distribution data set of wetlands in Baiyangdian Basin [Dataset]. http://doi.org/10.11922/sciencedb.00561
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    Jan 20, 2021
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    Authors
    Yan Xin; Niu Zhenguo
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    Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0)https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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    Area covered
    Baiyangdian
    Description

    As one of the plain wetland systems in northern China, Baiyangdian Wetland plays a key role in ensuring the water resources security and good ecological environment of Xiong'an New Area. Understanding the current situation of Baiyangdian Wetland ecosystem is also of great significance for the construction of the New Area and future scientific planning. Based on the 10-meter spatial resolution sentinel-2B image provided by ESA in September 2017, combined with Google Earth high resolution satellite image (resolution 0.23m), the wetland ecosystem network distribution map and river network distribution map of in Baiyangdian basin in 2017 were drawn by artificial visual interpretation and machine automatic classification, which can provide reference for the wetland connectivity (including hydrological connectivity and landscape connectivity) in Baiyangdian basin. The spatial distribution data set of Baiyangdian Wetland includes vector data and raster data: (1) Baiyangdian basin boundary data (.shp); Baiyangdian basin river channel data (. shp); (2) Baiyangdian basin land use / cover classification data (including the classification data of Baiyangdian basin and the river 3 km buffer) (.tif); Baiyangdian basin constructed wetland and natural wetland distribution map (. shp); Baiyangdian basin slope map (. tif). The boundary of Baiyangdian basin in this dataset comes from the basic geographic information map of Baiyangdian basin provided by Zhou Wei and others. The DEM is the GDEM digital elevation data with 30m resolution. The original image data of wetland remote sensing classification comes from the sentinel-2B remote sensing image on September 20, 2017 provided by ESA. This data set uses the second, third, fourth and eighth bands of the 10m resolution in the image. The preprocessing operations such as radiometric calibration, mosaic and mosaic are carried out in SNAP and ArcGIS 10.2 software, and the supervised classification is carried out in ENVI software. The data used for river channel extraction is based on Google Earth high resolution satellite images. The research and development steps of this dataset include: preprocessing sentinel-2B image, establishing wetland classification system and selecting samples, drawing the latest wetland ecosystem network distribution map of Baiyangdian basin by support vector machine classification; based on Google Earth high-resolution satellite image (resolution 0.23m), this paper uses LocaSpaceViewer software to identify and extract river channels by manual visual interpretation. For the river channels with embankment, identify and draw along the embankment; for the river channels without embankment, distinguish according to the spectral difference between the river channels and the surrounding land use types and empirical knowledge, mark the uncertain areas, and conduct field investigation in the later stage, which can ensure that the identified river channels have been extracted. The identified river channels include the main river channel, each classified river channel, abandoned river channel, etc., and all rivers are continuous. It can effectively identify the channel and ensure the accuracy of extraction. According to the river network map of Baiyangdian basin obtained by manual visual interpretation, the total length of the river in Baiyangdian basin is about 2440 km, and the total area is 514 km2. Among them, there are 177 km2 river channels in mountainous area, with a length of 866 km, distributed in northeast-southwest direction, mostly at the junction of forest land and cultivated land; there are 337 km2 river channels in plain area, with a length of 1574 km. The Baiyangdian basin is divided into eight land use / cover types: river, flood plain, lake, marsh, ditch, cultivated land, forest land and construction land. The remote sensing monitoring results show that the wetland area of Baiyangdian basin accounted for 13.90% in 2017. Among all the wetland types, the area of marsh is the largest, followed by the area of flood plain, ditch accounts for about 1%, and the proportion of lake and river is less than 0.5%. Combined with the land use / cover classification map and the distribution of slope and elevation, it can be seen that nearly 60% of the area of forest land is distributed in 10 ° to 30 ° mountain area, and the rest of the land use / cover types are mainly distributed in 0 ° to 2 ° area. The elevation statistics show that nearly 80% of the lakes and large reservoirs are distributed in the height of 100 m to 300 m, the distribution of marsh is relatively uniform, mainly in the higher altitude area of 20 m to 300 m, the types of construction land, flood area and cultivated land are mainly concentrated in the area of 20 m to 100 m, and rivers and ditches are mainly concentrated in the area of 0 m to 100 m. Based on the classification results of land use / cover within the river, it can be found that the main land use type is wetland. Specifically, the types of marsh, flood area and lake are the most, while the types of ditch and river are less. With the increase of the buffer area, the proportion of non-wetland type gradually increased, while the proportion of wetland type gradually decreased. The main wetland types in 1-3km buffer zone on both sides of the river are marsh and flood zone. It is worth noting that nearly one third of the River belongs to cultivated land, that is, the river occupation is serious. In terms of area, about 1 / 3 rivers and 3 / 4 lakes are distributed in the river course. Most of the water bodies in the river course are controlled by human beings, but the marsh area in the river course only accounts for about 3% of the marsh area in the whole river course. In this study, 8 types of land features including river, flood plain, lake, marsh, ditch, cultivated land, forest land and construction land were selected. The total number of samples was 5199, of which 67% was used for supervised classification and 33% for accuracy verification of confusion matrix. The overall accuracy of support vector machine (SVM) classification results in Baiyangdian basin is 84.25%, and kappa coefficient is 0.82. River occupation will not only directly reduce the connectivity of wetlands in the basin, but also cause some environmental and economic problems such as water pollution. However, if the connectivity of wetlands is reduced, the ecological and environmental functions of wetlands will be destroyed, which will pose a great threat to the water security of the basin. Taking Baiyangdian basin as a whole, improving the connectivity of wetlands and enhancing the ecological and environmental functions of wetlands in the basin will help to improve the water ecological and environmental security of Xiong'an New Area and Baiyangdian basin.

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    Data from: San Francisco Bay Levees

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    Updated Jun 27, 2018
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    (2018). San Francisco Bay Levees [Dataset]. http://datadiscoverystudio.org/geoportal/rest/metadata/item/d9277126184c44c6a4b9383e8897c2a6/html
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    Jun 27, 2018
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    Link to the ScienceBase Item Summary page for the item described by this metadata record. Service Protocol: Link to the ScienceBase Item Summary page for the item described by this metadata record. Application Profile: Web Browser. Link Function: information

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    ARIA Flood Water Depth Estimate derived from OPERA DSWx Product Suite on May...

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    Updated May 14, 2024
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    NASA ArcGIS Online (2024). ARIA Flood Water Depth Estimate derived from OPERA DSWx Product Suite on May 6, 2024 for the May 2024 Brasil Floods [Dataset]. https://disasters.amerigeoss.org/items/53dd7e74942c43f28b38878c42dcf1da
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    May 14, 2024
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    Date of Images:5/6/2024Date of Next Image:UnknownSummary:The floodwater depth raster produced for the 06th May 2024 for long-term floods in southern Brazil was generated using the Flood Water Depth Estimation Tool (Cohen et al, 2018, 2019; Peter et al, 2020). The Floodwater Depth Estimation Tool (FwDET) is a solution for producing timely floodwater depth data during flood activations that require emergency response and post-flood assessment.FwDET is based solely on a flood extent layer and a digital elevation model (DEM). The DEM used here was the NASA SRTM data. The flood extent layer was derived from the OPERA Dynamic Surface Water eXtent (DSWx) from the Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) product. The DEM used was the NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data. The computation involves identifying elevations at the boundaries of the flood extent layer and using those elevations to assign floodwater surface elevation to each cell within the flooded domain by identifying its nearest boundary cell. The modeled flood surface elevation is then subtracted from the original DEM to retrieve depth.The results posted here are preliminary and unvalidated results, primarily intended to aid the field response and people who wanted to have a rough first look at the flood inundation depth. The flood depth map may contain errors due to inaccurate elevations in the NASA SRTM DEM or the water surface estimation.Data Sources:OPERA Dynamic Surface Water eXtent from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (DSWx-HLS) - based flood inundation extent raster generated by the ARIA/OPERA group at NASA JPL. NASA SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) Digital Elevation 30 m (openly available on Google Earth Engine)Suggested Use:The darkest shades of blue indicate where the product is estimating the largest floodwater depth, while lighter shades indicate shallower floodingSatellite/Sensor:Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS)MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) on European Space Agency's (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel-2A/2B satellitesNASA SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) Digital Elevation 30 m (openly available on Google Earth Engine)Resolution:30 metersCredits:Dinuke Munasinghe - NASA JPL Water and Ecosystems Team, NASA JPL ARIA/OPERA TeamProduct POCs:Dinuke Munasinghe (dinuke.nanayakkara.munasinghe@jpl.nasa.gov)FwDET Algorithm Documentation:Cohen, S., Brakenridge, G.R., Kettner, A., Bates, B., Nelson, J., McDonald, R., Huang, Y, Munasinghe, D., and J. Zhang (2018). Estimating Floodwater Depths from Flood Inundation Maps and Topography. Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 54(4), 847-858. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1752-1688.12609Cohen, S., Raney, A., Munasinghe D., Loftis, D., Molthan, A., Bell, J., Rogers, L., Galantowicz, J., Brakenridge, G.R., Kettner, A., Huang, Y., and Y. Tsang (2019). The Floodwater Depth Estimation Tool (FwDET v2.0) for Improved Remote Sensing Analysis of Coastal Flooding. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 19(9), 2053-2065. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-2053-2019Farr, T.G., Rosen, P.A., Caro, E., Crippen, R., Duren, R., Hensley, S., Kobrick, M., Paller, M., Rodriguez, E., Roth, L., Seal, D., Shaffer, S., Shimada, J., Umland, J., Werner, M., Oskin, M., Burbank, D., and Alsdorf, D.E., 2007, The shuttle radar topography mission: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 45, no. 2, RG2004, at https://doi.org/10.1029/2005RG000183.Peter, B., Cohen, S., Lucey, R., Munasinghe, D., Raney, A., and G. Brakenridge (2020). "Google Earth Engine Implementation of the Floodwater Depth Estimation Tool (FwDET-GEE) for Rapid and Large Scale Flood Analysis". IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/lgrs.2020.3031190OPERA. 2023. OPERA Dynamic Surface Water Extent from Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 CalVal Database (Version 1). Ver. 1.0. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [2024-05-09] at https://doi.org/10.5067/OPDSW-PCVV1Esri REST Endpoint:See URL section on right side of pageWMS Endpoint:https://maps.disasters.nasa.gov/ags03/services/brasil_flood_202405/fwdet_flood_depth/MapServer/WMSServerData Download:https://aria-share.jpl.nasa.gov/202405-RioGrandeSul_Brazil-floods/FloodDepth/

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    Disaster Prevention Information_Reservoir Flood Warning

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    Updated Jun 1, 2025
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    Water Resources Agency,Ministry of Economic Affairs (2025). Disaster Prevention Information_Reservoir Flood Warning [Dataset]. https://data.gov.tw/en/datasets/5984
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    Dataset updated
    Jun 1, 2025
    Dataset authored and provided by
    Water Resources Agency,Ministry of Economic Affairs
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    https://data.gov.tw/licensehttps://data.gov.tw/license

    Description

    The Water Resources Agency's disaster emergency response team of the Ministry of Economic Affairs further combines real-time data such as rainfall, water level, and reservoir information with long-term disaster response experience and computer technology to provide reservoir alerts for the public and relevant units. This helps the public understand the risk of home flooding, prepare early, and reduce the occurrence of disasters. This dataset is linked to a Keyhole Markup Language (KML) file list. This format is a markup language based on the XML (eXtensible Markup Language) syntax standard, developed and maintained by Keyhole, a subsidiary of Google, to express geographic annotations. Documents written in the KML language are KML files, which use the XML file format and are used in Google Earth related software (Google Earth, Google Map, Google Maps for mobile...) to display geographic data (including points, lines, polygons, polyhedra, and models...). Many GIS-related systems now also use this format for the exchange of geographic data, and the fields and codes of this data are all in UTF-8.

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ShareGIS NY (2023). FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer Viewer [Dataset]. https://data.gis.ny.gov/datasets/fema-national-flood-hazard-layer-viewer

FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer Viewer

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Mar 29, 2023
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Description

The National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL) is a geospatial database that contains current effective flood hazard data. FEMA provides the flood hazard data to support the National Flood Insurance Program. You can use the information to better understand your level of flood risk and type of flooding.The NFHL is made from effective flood maps and Letters of Map Change (LOMC) delivered to communities. NFHL digital data covers over 90 percent of the U.S. population. New and revised data is being added continuously. If you need information for areas not covered by the NFHL data, there may be other FEMA products which provide coverage for those areas.In the NFHL Viewer, you can use the address search or map navigation to locate an area of interest and the NFHL Print Tool to download and print a full Flood Insurance Rate Map (FIRM) or FIRMette (a smaller, printable version of a FIRM) where modernized data exists. Technical GIS users can also utilize a series of dedicated GIS web services that allow the NFHL database to be incorporated into websites and GIS applications. For more information on available services, go to the NFHL GIS Services User Guide.You can also use the address search on the FEMA Flood Map Service Center (MSC) to view the NFHL data or download a FIRMette. Using the “Search All Products” on the MSC, you can download the NFHL data for a County or State in a GIS file format. This data can be used in most GIS applications to perform spatial analyses and for integration into custom maps and reports. To do so, you will need GIS or mapping software that can read data in shapefile format.FEMA also offers a download of a KMZ (keyhole markup file zipped) file, which overlays the data in Google Earth™. For more information on using the data in Google Earth™, please see Using the National Flood Hazard Layer Web Map Service (WMS) in Google Earth™.

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