A GIS-supported impact assessment of the hierarchical flood-defense systems on the plain areas of the Taihu Basin, China

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 643-665

  Yu, Chaoqing ^a   Cheng, Xiaotao ^b   Hall, Jim ^c   Evans, Edward P ^d   Wang, Yanyan ^c   Hu, Changwei ^b   Wu, Haoyun ^e   Wicks, Jon ^f   Scott, Mathew ^f   Sun, Haitao ^e   Wang, Jing ^b   Ren, Minglei ^b   Xu, Zongxue ^g  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA INSTITUTE OF WATER RESOURCES AND HYDROPOWER RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e Taihu Basin Authority   (China)

^f CH2M HILL   (United States)

^g BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

damage assessment; flooding; GIS; hydraulic modeling; polders; the Taihu Basin

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPLEXITY; DAMAGE MECHANICS; DIGITAL MAPPING; FLOOD CONTROL; FLOOD DAMAGE; FLOOD FORECASTING; FLOODPLAIN; GIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MODEL TEST; MODEL VALIDATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

CHINA; TAIHU BASIN;

EID: 84859393489     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2011.609486     Document Type: Article

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