A GIS-supported 3D approach for flood risk assessment of the Qu'Appelle River, Southern Saskatchewan

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4-6, 2006, Pages 440-455

  Abdalla, Rifaat ^a   Tao, C Vincent ^a,d,e   Wu, Huayi ^b,f   Maqsood, Imran ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e York Geospatial Information and Communication Technology (GeoICT) Lab   (United Kingdom)

^f National Lab of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing   (China)

Author keywords

3 dimensional; Flood; GIS; Modelling; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745004616     PISSN: 14668297     EISSN: 17415241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJRAM.2006.009545     Document Type: Article

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