Flood Modelling in Jakarta
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Date
26/11/2009Item status
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Diamantidis, Georgios
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Abstract
Flooding is a major issue that affects the well being of a big part of the global
population. This project is concerned with flooding caused by extreme rainfall events.
Its aim is the development of a flood prediction model for an area that has been
affected by two major rainfall induced flood events over the last 7 years. This area is
Jakarta, capital city of Indonesia. Since Indonesia is a developing country, the
availability of necessary data for flood modelling is minimal. Thus the main challenge
of this project is to prove that lack of data can be overcome and a model can be
developed, that will be based on GIS and remote sensing data globally available. For
the creation of the model, HEC-HMS and HEC-RAS, two widely used modelling
software packages were used. By using the simplest methods available and making
some assumptions based on previous research, to overcome the lack of data, a model
is developed. That model has the potential to overcome the issues raised by the data
gaps and be used as a prediction tool, with satisfactory results. Nevertheless, this
model can be improved in the future and return more accurate and detailed results.