Kavya Balan
Independent Researcher
India
Abstract
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have become indispensable tools for urban flood risk mapping, enabling practitioners to integrate spatial data, hydrological modeling, and risk assessment into coherent frameworks. This manuscript examines the state of GIS applications in urban flood risk mapping as of 2016, with an emphasis on engineering discipline practices and technologies available up to that year. We review key methodologies, present case studies illustrating successful implementations, describe a generalized methodology, report results from comparative analyses, and discuss the scope and limitations of GIS-based approaches. Ten references published up to 2016 are provided to support foundational concepts and documented case studies.
Keywords
GIS urban flood risk mapping vulnerability assessment spatial analysis hydrological modeling case studies
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