scholarly journals Flood Susceptibility Mapping on a National Scale in Slovakia Using the Analytical Hierarchy Process

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matej Vojtek ◽  
Jana Vojteková
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
River Network ◽  
Susceptibility Mapping ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Network Density ◽  
Flow Accumulation ◽  
Flood Susceptibility ◽  
Flood Susceptibility Mapping ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Very High

Flood susceptibility mapping and assessment is an important element of flood prevention and mitigation strategies because it identifies the most vulnerable areas based on physical characteristics that determine the propensity for flooding. This study aims to define the flood susceptibility zones for the territory of Slovakia using a multi-criteria approach, particularly the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) technique, and geographic information systems (GIS). Seven flood conditioning factors were chosen: hydrography—distance from rivers, river network density; hydrology—flow accumulation; morphometry—elevation, slope; and permeability—curve numbers, lithology. All factors were defined as raster datasets with the resolution of 50 x 50 m. The AHP technique was used to calculate the factor weights. The relative importance of the selected factors prioritized slope degree as the most important factor followed by river network density, distance from rivers, flow accumulation, elevation, curve number, and lithology. It was found that 33.1% of the territory of Slovakia is characterized by very high to high flood susceptibility. The flood susceptibility map was validated against 1513 flood historical points showing very good agreement between the computed susceptibility zones and historical flood events of which 70.9% were coincident with high and very high susceptibility levels, thus confirming the effectiveness of the methodology adopted.

scholarly journals Flood Susceptibility Mapping through the GIS-AHP Technique Using the Cloud

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 720 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kishore Chandra Swain ◽  
Chiranjit Singha ◽  
Laxmikanta Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Google Earth ◽  
Susceptibility Mapping ◽  
Flood Susceptibility ◽  
Land Cover Dynamics ◽  
Risk Zones ◽  
Flood Susceptibility Mapping ◽  
High Flood ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Pair Wise Comparison ◽  
Very High

Flood susceptibility mapping is essential for characterizing flood risk zones and for planning mitigation approaches. Using a multi-criteria decision support system, this study investigated a flood susceptible region in Bihar, India. It used a combination of the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and geographic information system (GIS)/remote sensing (RS) with a cloud computing API on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform. Five main flood-causing criteria were broadly selected, namely hydrologic, morphometric, permeability, land cover dynamics, and anthropogenic interference, which further had 21 sub-criteria. The relative importance of each criterion prioritized as per their contribution toward flood susceptibility and weightage was given by an AHP pair-wise comparison matrix (PCM). The most and least prominent flood-causing criteria were hydrologic (0.497) and anthropogenic interference (0.037), respectively. An area of ~3000 sq km (40.36%) was concentrated in high to very high flood susceptibility zones that were in the vicinity of rivers, whereas an area of ~1000 sq km (12%) had very low flood susceptibility. The GIS-AHP technique provided useful insights for flood zone mapping when a higher number of parameters were used in GEE. The majorities of detected flood susceptible areas were flooded during the 2019 floods and were mostly located within 500 m of the rivers’ paths.

scholarly journals Integrated Framework for Detecting the Areas Prone to Flooding Generated by Flash-Floods in Small River Catchments

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romulus Costache ◽  
Alina Barbulescu ◽  
Quoc Bao Pham
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Buffer Zone ◽  
Training Sample ◽  
Flash Floods ◽  
Operating Characteristics ◽  
Conditioning Factors ◽  
Flood Susceptibility ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Very High

In the present study, the susceptibility to flash-floods and flooding was studied across the Izvorul Dorului River basin in Romania. In the first phase, three ensemble models were used to determine the susceptibility to flash-floods. These models were generated by a combination of three statistical bivariate methods, namely frequency ratio (FR), weights of evidence (WOE), and statistical index (SI), with fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP). The result obtained from the application of the FAHP-WOE model had the best performance highlighted by an Area Under Curve—Receiver Operating Characteristics Curve (AUC-ROC) value of 0.837 for the training sample and another of 0.79 for the validation sample. Furthermore, the results offered by FAHP-WOE were weighted on the river network level using the flow accumulation method, through which the valleys with a medium, high, and very high torrential susceptibility were identified. Based on these valleys’ locations, the susceptibility to floods was estimated. Thus, in the first stage, a buffer zone of 200 m was delimited around the identified valleys along which the floods could occur. Once the buffer zone was established, ten flood conditioning factors were used to determine the flood susceptibility through the analytical hierarchy process model. Approximately 25% of the total delimited area had a high and very high flood susceptibility.

scholarly journals PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS ON FLOOD SUSCEPTIBILITY MAPPING IN ANKARA (TURKEY) USING MODIFIED ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS (M-AHP)

2018 ◽  
Vol XLII-5 ◽  
pp. 361-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Sozer ◽  
S. Kocaman ◽  
H. A. Nefeslioglu ◽  
O. Firat ◽  
C. Gokceoglu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Flood Hazard ◽  
Analytic Solutions ◽  
Drainage Density ◽  
Susceptibility Mapping ◽  
Topographic Wetness Index ◽  
Flood Susceptibility ◽  
Spatial Datasets ◽  
Flood Susceptibility Mapping ◽  
Hierarchy Process

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Susceptibility mapping for disasters is very important and provides the necessary means for efficient urban planning, such as site selection and the determination of the regulations, risk assessment and the planning of the post-disaster stage, such as emergency plans and activities. The main purpose of the present study is to introduce the preliminary results of an expert based flood susceptibility mapping approach applied in urban areas in case of Ankara, Turkey. The proposed approach is based on Modified Analytic Hierarchy Process (M-AHP), which is an expert-based algorithm and provides data based modeling. The existing spatial datasets are evaluated in the decision process and the specified number of decision points according to the degree desired can be formed. The parameter priorities can be identified at the beginning of the modeling with this approach by the responsible expert. The spatial datasets used in the modeling and mapping process have been provided by the General Directorate of Mapping (HGM). Additionally, the slope gradient of topography, drainage density, and topographic wetness index of the site being one of the second derivatives of topography have been evaluated to identify the main conditioning factors controlling water accumulation on ground. Considering the uncertainties in flood hazard assessment and limitations in sophisticated analytic solutions, the proposed methodology could be evaluated to be an efficient tool to detect the most influential parameters representing the flood vulnerability and assessing the mitigation applications in urban environment.</p>

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Prediction Capability of AHP and F_AHP Methods in Flood Susceptibility Mapping of Ernakulam District (India)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
RESHMA VILASAN ◽  
Vijay S Kapse
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Cover ◽  
Roc Curve ◽  
Analytical Hierarchy Process ◽  
Flood Susceptibility ◽  
Curve Method ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Very High ◽  
Prediction Capability

Abstract Floods are one of the frequent natural hazards occurring in Kerala because of the remarkably high annual rate of rainfall. The objective of this study is to prepare the flood susceptibility maps of the Ernakulam district by integrating remote sensing data, GIS, and analytical hierarchy process (AHP), and fuzzy-analytical hierarchy process methods. Factors such as slope angle, soil types (texture), land use/land cover, stream density, water ratio index, normalized difference built-up index, topographic wetness index, stream power index, aspect, sediment transport index have been selected. The area of the final maps is grouped into five flood susceptible zones, ranging from very low to very high. The major reasons for flood occurrence in Ernakulam district are the combined effect of multiple factors such as excess silting, reduction of stream width due to human intervention, and changes in land cover and land use pattern, lower slope, higher soil moisture content, lower stream capacity, and poor infiltration capacity of soils. The prepared map was validated using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve method. The area under the ROC curve (AUC) values of 0.75 and 0.81 estimated by the ROC curve method for the AHP and F-AHP methods is considered acceptable and excellent, which confirms the prediction capability of the prepared maps. The very high susceptible zone constitutes around 19% of the district. This map is useful for land-use planners and policymakers to adopt strategies which will reduce the impact of flood hazard and damage in the future.

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