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GeomorphicFloodArea
GFA - tool is an open-source QGIS plug-in to realize a fast and cost-effective delineation of the floodplains in the contexts where the available data is scarce to carry out hydrological/hydraulic analyses.
The delineation of flood hazard and flood risk areas is a critical issue whose complete achievement regularly encounters several practical difficulties. In data-scarce environments (e.g. ungauged basins, large-scale analyses), useful information about flood hazard exposure can be obtained using geomorphic methods. In order to advance this field of research, we implemented in the QGIS environment an automated DEM-based procedure that exhibited high accuracy and reliability in identifying the flood-prone areas in several test sites located in Europe, United States and Africa. This tool, named Geomorphic Flood Area tool (GFA tool), enables a fast and cost-effective flood mapping by performing a linear binary classification based on the recently proposed Geomorphic Flood Index (GFI). The GFA tool provides a user-friendly strategy to map flood exposure over large areas.
Samela, C., Albano, R., Sole, A., Manfreda, S. (2018). Geomorphic Flood Area (GFA): a QGIS tool for a cost-effective delineation of the flood-prone areas, Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, (doi: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2018.01.013)
- Author
- Raffaele Albano, Caterina Samela, Salvatore Manfreda, Aurelia Sole
- Maintainer
- raffalba
- Tags
- hydraulic , geomorphology , hydrology , dem , hazard map , gis , flood map
- Plugin home page
- https://github.com/HydroLAB-UNIBAS/GFA-Geomorphic-Flood-Area.git
- Tracker
- Browse and report bugs
- Code repository
- https://github.com/HydroLAB-UNIBAS/GFA-Geomorphic-Flood-Area
- Latest stable version
- 2.0
- Plugin ID
-
1407
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