Using disaster footprints, population databases and GIS to overcome persistent problems for human impact assessment in flood events

Natural Hazards

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 845-852

  Guha Sapir, Debarati ^a   Rodriguez Llanes, Jose M ^a   Jakubicka, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Disaster impact; Flood; Footprint; Mortality; Population exposure; Satellite

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATABASE; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FLOOD; GIS; MORTALITY; NATURAL HAZARD; WATERSHED;

EID: 79961025168     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-9775-y     Document Type: Article

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