VISUALIZATION AND SIMULATION OF CRITICAL SITUATIONS CAUSED BY FLOODING
VISUALIZATION AND SIMULATION OF CRITICAL SITUATIONS CAUSED BY FLOODING

Summary/Abstract: Globally flooding is one of the natural catastrophes that every year causes most victims and the greatest economical effects. In European countries death caused by flooding is relatively unusual, but the damages in tangible assets and the cost for the society are considerable. In case of flooding many authorities and organizations become involved and there is a problem to take in the whole situation and have a common picture when many incidents happen at the same time. There is also a lack of efficient tools showing critical buildings and constructions such as roads, railroads, water-purifying plant, etc, in combination with actual and forecasted water-levels. In this paper a model for visualization of critical situations caused by flooding in rivers is presented. The model is based on critical factors derived from studies of earlier flooding, hydrological models, and visualization models.

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