Abstract

Using ArcGIS to Predict Coastal Flood Risks
Track: Disaster and Emergency Management
Authors: Al Souid

Modelers of coastal flood risks use, in general, conventional manual methods to enter data. This can be subjected to human errors, data size limitations in addition to the amount of time needed to process. AMEC has developed a new coastal tool built within ArcGIS to model areas subjected to coastal flood risks. Several ArcGIS algorithms used to build all the rasters, surfaces and hazard simulation. Computation results are geo-referenced and tabulated clearly to facilitate analysis and mapping.