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| Titel |
Visualising interactive flood risk maps in a dynamic Geobrowser |
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Desmond Yaw Manful, Yi He, Hannah Cloke, Florian Pappenberger, Zhijia Li, Fredrik Wetterhall, Yingchun Huang, Yuzhong Hu |
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EGU General Assembly 2010
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Englisch
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PDF |
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In: GRA - Volume 12 (2010) |
| Datensatznummer |
250044422
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Communicating flood forecast products effectively to end-users is the final step in the flood event simulation process. A prototype of the Novel Flood Early Warning System (NEWS) based on the TIGGE (THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble) database explores new avenues to visualise flood forecast products in a dynamic and interactive manner. One of the possibilities NEWS is currently assessing is Google Maps. Google Maps is a basic web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use). It powers many map-based services including maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. Creating a customized map interface requires adding the Google JavaScript code to a page, and then using Javascript functions to add points to the map.
Flood maps allow end-users to visualise and navigate a world that is too large and complex to be seen directly. The NEWS software will attempt to deal with the following issues:
• Uncertainty visualization in hazards maps
• Visualizing uncertainty for sector specific risk managers
• Uncertainty representation of point and linear data
The objective is improve the information content of flood risk maps making them more useful to specific end-users. |
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