Citation

Gutenson JL, Ernest ANS, Oubeidillah AA, Zhu L, Zhang X, Sadeghi ST. J. Am. Water Resour. Assoc. 2018; 54(1): 104-123.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, American Water Resources Association, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/1752-1688.12556

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE) derived technologies and workflows will offer the ability to rapidly forecast flood damages. Address Points used by emergency management personnel approximate the locations of buildings, and they are a common operating picture for emergency responders. Most United States (U.S.) county tax assessment offices throughout the contiguous U.S. (CONUS) produce georeferenced cadastral data. To varying degrees, these parcel data describe building characteristics of structures within the parcel. Address Point data with cadastral data offers the ability to rapidly develop building inventories for flood damage estimation. Flood damage forecasts can expedite recovery and improve short-term flood resilience. In this work the authors evaluate Flood Damage Wizard, a proposed open source platform independent methodology. Flood Damage Wizard uses point shapefile building information to estimate flood damage to buildings by finding the appropriate depth-damage function using fuzzy-text matching. The authors apply Flood Damage Wizard using Address Point and parcel datasets to demonstrate a method of estimating flood damage to buildings nearly anywhere within the CONUS.

RESULTS indicate using Address Point and cadastral datasets can generate total flood damage estimates approximate to those estimated using existing software solutions Hazus-MH and HEC-FIA with minimal manual processing of input data.

Language: en

Keywords

damage assessment; flooding; geospatial analysis; open source software; planning; rapid damage assessment; risk assessment