GIS for River Floods

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GIS technology coupled with remote sensing can be used to understand and predict the changes that may lead to floods.

Abstract: Flood is a complex outcome of an interface between geological, physiographical, hydrological, meteorological and anthropogenic dynamics. It mandates high computational techniques for the analysis of a large volume of hierarchical pictorial data. GIS technology, inseparably interleaved with remote sensing, helps to panoramically beam complex issues involving river floods and the feasibility of detecting and mitigating them.

The author is a Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Geology, Alagappa University, Karaikudi. smrsamy@gmail.com