This article examines the role of climatic and hydrological variability in assessing the cumulative risk of flood events in Poland over a T-year period. In a broad sense flood-risk estimation combines a frequency analysis of extreme hydrological phenomena with an evaluation of flood-induced damages. The damage from floods depends on the critical values of the river discharges. The probabilistic...

Flood damage can be minimised by ensuring optimum capacity to drainage structures. An underdesign of these structures increases flood damage cost whereas an overdesign incurs unnecessary expenses. The optimum design of water infrastructures depends largely on reliable estimation of design floods which is a flood discharge associated with a given annual exceedance probability. For design flood e...

Remote sensing is recognized as a valuable tool for flood mapping due to its synoptic view and continuous coverage of the flooding event. This paper proposed a hybrid approach based on multiple endmember spectral analysis (MESMA) and Random Forest classifier to extract inundated areas in Yuyao City in China using medium resolution optical imagery. MESMA was adopted to tackle the mixing pixel pr...

Maximum flood extent—a key data need for disaster response and mitigation—is rarely quantified due to storm-related cloud cover and the low temporal resolution of optical sensors. While change detection approaches can circumvent these issues through the identification of inundated land and soil from post-flood imagery, their accuracy can suffer in the narrow and complex channels of increasingly...

The analysis of historical disaster events is a critical step towards understanding current risk levels and changes in over time. Disaster databases are potentially useful tools for exploring trends, however, criteria inclusion associated descriptive characteristics not standardized. For example, some include only primary types, such as ‘flood’, while others subtypes, ‘coastal flood’ ‘flash flo...

OBJECTIVE We examined changes in general health status, the prevalence of depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and the existence of pre-trauma contributing factors in an agricultural population following a massive flood. METHODS Eighty-three of 160 residents of Garisan-ni, Inje-gun, Gangwon-do, were assessed using the Korean version of the 36-Item Short-Form Health S...