Urban planning, flood risk and public policy: The case of the Arno River, Firenze, Italy
| Autor: | L. Ermini, Samuele Segoni, Filippo Catani, Goffredo Manzo, Stefano Morelli |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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GPS
Gps Geography Planning and Development Fluvial Context (language use) Dikes Geodatabase Geoid Gis Hydraulic policy Hydrological risk GIS Urban planning Tributary Risk management General Environmental Science Hydrology geography geography.geographical_feature_category Flood myth business.industry Spatial database Environmental resource management Forestry Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Orthometric height business |
| Popis: | Urban planning and hydraulic risk management are a worldwide necessity which is best achieved when natural and artificial elements located closely to watercourses are known in great detail. A geodatabase is a practical tool to store and manage such information. When working at small scales, however, any well established methodology exists to map the position and the height of the various elements with centimetric accuracy. For this purpose we propose a methodology that we tested on the Arno river (Italy) and its most urbanized tributaries, a demonstrative case of hydrological risk around large fluvial systems. We surveyed 116 km of river traits to collect GPS measurements and information about all the natural and artificial elements connected to hydraulic risk and fluvial dynamics. The mapped elements include (but are not limited to) buildings, assets, bridges, hydraulic works, weirs, drainage outlets, dikes, riverbanks, structural damages, fluvial bars and eroding banks. All these elements were mapped with high accuracy, in particular a local geoid model, related only to the study area, was developed to obtain orthometric heights affected with errors ≤0.05 m. Consequently a GIS geodatabase was built to visualize the spatial distribution of the mapped elements and to store a series of technical data, including the present preservation condition for man-made objects. The geodatabase provides an overview of the territories connected with the fluvial dynamics, highlighting that in the studied territory, the more is urbanized, the more it is exposed to hydraulic risk. In a similar context, the geodatabase itself represents a useful tool for the management of the hydrological risk and for hydraulic policy and urban planning. |
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