Mapping the zone: improving flood map accuracy

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Title Statements

Full title :Mapping the zone : improving flood map accuracy / Committee on FEMA Flood Maps, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources/Mapping Science Committee, Water Science and Technology Board, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2009.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):National Academies Press
Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2009.

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"This study was requested by managers of FEMA's Risk Analysis Division and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) Coastal Services Center, supported by NOAA's National Weather Service, National Geodetic Survey, and Coast Survey Development Laboratory."--Page ix.

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 122 pages : : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; : 28 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780309130578, 0309130573
oclc:ocn310392632
LC Classification:GB1399.3
Dewey Decimal:551.48

FLOOD MAPPING AND FLOOD INSURANCE: Flood insurance rate maps -- Flood map production -- FEMA’s Map Modernization Program -- Map maintenance -- Flood map information technology -- Flood data and a national hydrologic information system -- ELEVATION AND HEIGHT DATA: Establishing a reference surface -- Establishing base surfaces -- Measuring and monitoring water surface elevations -- Surveying structure elevations -- Impact of elevation uncertainties in a flood study -- INLAND FLOODING: Uncertainty of the base flood elevation at stream gages -- Determining the flood discharge -- USGS Regional regression equations -- Hydraulic models -- North Carolina flood mapping case study -- Shallow flooding -- COASTAL FLOODING: Flood hazards in coastal systems -- FEMA coastal flood modeling methodology -- From models to maps: developing the next generation of coastal flood models -- BENEFITS AND COSTS OF ACCURATE FLOOD MAPPING: Benefits and costs -- FEMA Benefit-cost analyses -- North Carolina case study -- MAPPING AND RISK COMMUNICATION: MOVING TO THE FUTURE: Improving coastal flooding designations -- Mapping flood risk.

Subjects

Aerial photography in watershed managem… Aerial photography in watershed managem… Cartes géographiques Flood forecasting Flood forecasting -- Maps. -- United St… Floodplain management Floodplain management -- United States Floodplains -- Maps. -- Monitoring -- U… Floodplains -- Monitoring Floods Floods -- Maps. -- United States Maps Photographie aérienne en gestion des ba… Plaines inondables -- Gestion -- États-… United States