From high waters forecasts to flooded areas forecasts

Abstract

Abstract. Flooded areas are key information to crisis managers, both at local and national level. They help sizing human and material resources to be deployed before and during a flood. These data already exist on several French rivers as they are been produced in a legislative framework but mainly addressing the hundred-year flood. The purpose of the Flood Forecasting Services is to complete water levels forecasting published on www.vigicrues.gouv.fr with forecasting information on spatial flooded areas. State services are developing new flooded areas ranging from first overflows to the hundred-year floods. A national database called VIGInond provides secure web services to access these new data. It was developed in 2015. A key step in the standardization of these new data is the collaboration between various state services. The access to VIGInond is initially opened to the Ministry of Interior services. This first step allows the operators to test and to understand the impacts of forthcoming flooding. Once tested, it will be made available to other crisis managers through the forthcoming Vigicrues® portal version 2. The new data will be gradually included in Vigicrues® watercourses, while coastal areas and new watercourses will be subsequently added. These new information will increase awareness of flooding risks among stakeholders and citizens in the near future.

A Contemporary Systematic Review of Cyberinfrastructure Systems and Applications for Flood and Drought Data Analytics and Communication

“…Recent developments in information and internet technologies provide a great opportunity to enhance all the aforementioned data processes and sharing of flood and rainfall-related data and information and to improve the timeliness of flood warnings (Demir and Krajewski, 2013). The domain of flood cyberinfrastructures has seen transformative advancements in recent years (Curtis and Fowler, 2012;Andreasen et al, 2016;Escudier et al, 2016;Jones et al, 2017;Borsch et al, 2018;De Filippis et al, 2022). This growth is underscored by the development of multi-hazard and multi-criteria platforms (Ries et al, 2010;Heil et al, 2014;Kochilakis et al, 2016;Ong et al, 2017;Abily et al, 2020;Lin et al, 2020;Mamassis et al, 2021).…”

e-Flooding: Crisis Management through Two Temporal Loops

“…Several geomatic tools exist to process hydraulic data, such as CARTINO and CARTOZI [3]. These tools help modeling the possible flooding and provide necessary information to rescue and crisis unit during climatic events.…”

“…These tools help modeling the possible flooding and provide necessary information to rescue and crisis unit during climatic events. For wider audience, several web sites also propose related information such as Vigicrues 3 from French government, the collaborative efforts on keeping traces of historical flooding levels 4 or the RHyT-MME 5 web site aiming at providing information on hydro-meteorological risks.…”

“…These floods can be devastating both for human beings and infrastructures (from households, industry, to energy or water distribution for instance). Recent years have seen the dramatic development of IT technologies: sensors to detect high water levels on river courses [1,2], weather prediction to anticipate heavy rains and potential flooded areas [3,4], satellite or aerial images to analyze flooding basins [5,6,7,8], learning technologies to build on past events in order to get ready at best for future occurrences [4,2]. Slow floods have received more attention in large water basin, where the event can be considered as slow (in the timescale of days).…”