Updating flood inundation maps efficiently: building on existing hydraulic information and modern elevation data with a GIS

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Title Updating flood inundation maps efficiently: building on existing hydraulic information and modern elevation data with a GIS
Creator Jones,Joseph L.; Haluska, Tana L.; Williamson, Alex K.; Erwin, Martha L.
Subject Maps; Technological innovations; Floods; Geographic information systems; Evaluation
Description Flood maps produced by detailed Flood Insurance Studies (around 1980) in many cases are in need of updates to both the flood level used for the maps and to the elevation data used to delineate inundation areas. We have presented a cost-effective approach to making these updates using the results of the earlier detailed hydraulic studies, new high-accuracy elevation data, and geographic information system mapping technology. The resultant maps are as accurate and more detailed than the existing maps; easily produce important ancillary information such as detailed flood depth maps; facilitate flood impact assessment and planning; and are comparatively simple to store and distribute.
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Date 1998
Type Text
Format application/pdf
Digitization Specifications pdf file copied from USGS website (http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/WRI03-4098/). Uploaded into CONTENTdm version 3.7.
Identifier http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/WRI03-4098/
Source Jones,Joseph L., Haluska, Tana L., Williamson, Alex K., and Erwin, Martha L., 1998, Updating flood inundation maps efficiently: building on existing hydraulic information and modern elevation data with a GIS, Washington: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 98-200, 10 p.
Language eng
Rights Management Public Domain, Courtesy of the USGS
Holding Institution University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s6td9w7d
Setname wwdl_er
ID 1145691
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6td9w7d
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