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Southeast China coastal areas belong to subtropical monsoon climatic zone, thus easily affected by floods resulted from typhoons and rainstorms. Since the areas of river basins are small, rivers flood regulation capacities are low, and therefore flood hazard is grave. In this paper, taking the Yongjiang basin in southeast China as an example, the approaches and methods of geographic information system (GIS) applied to flood disaster control and reduction research on small basin are explored. On GIS help the rainfall-runoff calculation model and the river channel flood routing model are developed. And the evaluating flood submerged area and the damage assessment models are built supported by digit elevation models. Lastly the decision support system on GIS supported for flood control in research basin has been set up. This greatly improves flood-proofing decision-making capacities in river basin, and provides valuable information and a mode for flood prevention and reduction in the medium and small basin. Meanwhile, the research indicates that technologies of GIS provide a powerful tool for flood disaster control.
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Foundation item: Under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 49771020).
Biography: XU You-peng(1956 —), male, a native of Jiangsu Province, professor. His research interests include hydrology, water resources and water environment.
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Xu, Yp., Du, Jk., Zhang, Lf. et al. Research on system of flood disaster control and reduction supported by gis in medium and small basins. Chin. Geograph.Sc. 12, 30–34 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-002-0067-z
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-002-0067-z
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- geographic information system (GIS)
- system of flood disaster prevention and reduction
- coastal medium and small river basins in southeast China