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A GIS-Based Flood Forecasting System
The Flood management unit of the Flanders Environment Agency, or VlaamseMilieumaatschappij VMM has developed and deployed an advanced Flood forecastingsystem throughout Flanders that monitors more than 4,000 km of the region s water-ways. It is used for Flood prediction and much Jim BaumannA GIS-Based Flood Forecasting System IntroductionLocated in the Low Countries of northwesternEurope, Belgium (and particularly Flanders)has historically suffered from flooding. Someof this region is at or below sea level andcontains a dense network of rivers that incre-ase the potential for flooding during periodsof heavy rainfall and storm named, Flanders is derivedfrom the Proto-Germanic word flaumaz,which means overflow or flooding. Recordsindicate that major storm surges between thethirteenth and seventeenth centuries destroy-ed more than 100 coastal villages in the years, the Flemish government hasimplemented Flood control projects, inclu-ding a comprehensive dike and canal sys-tem, in an effort to protect the , as a result of massive floods in1998, when the Demer River overflowed itsbanks and caused severe damage, thegovernment began exploring methods offlood a Forecasting System We began building a simple forecastingsystem for the Demer River in 2002, saidKris Cauwenberghs, head of the floodmanagement unit of the Flanders Environ -ment Agency, or Vlaamse Milieu maat -schappij (VMM).
Mapping portal-page: showing data, tools and mapping allowing a webbased editing of flooded buildings, flood depths and floodcontours. Title: A GIS-Based Flood Forecasting System Author: GeoInformatics Subject: GIS for flood forecasting Keywords:
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