Abstract

The Impact of Land Use Change on Flood Inundation Area in Myanmar
Track: Water Resources
Authors: Shin Yonehara, Wataru Takeuchi, Akiyuki Kawasaki

Flood management is serious problem in Myanmar. In this research, land use model was developed using GIS and flood simulation was conducted based on future land use prediction. Land use change in the past was modeled by logistic regression. In this part, GIS was used to make geographical variables. The result shows how urbanization and deforestation will increase flood inundation. GIS solved the problem of low data availability. This is useful for those who have trouble with data availability.