New estimates of flood exposure in developing countries using high-resolution population data

Autor: Andrew Smith, Paul D. Bates, Oliver Wing, Christopher Sampson, Niall Quinn, Jeff Neal
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 10, Iss 1, Pp 1-7 (2019)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-09282-y
Popis: Flood risk modelling neglects the location of people and assets. Here the authors applied machine learning techniques and high-resolution population data to reinvestigate the impact of population distributions on flood exposure and showed that populations are generally represented as risk-averse and largely avoiding obvious flood zones.
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