Faculty of Geography of the University Valencia (UV) created the first accurate cartography of the floods it caused Calf October 29. This delimitation, whose research was coordinated by Carmen Zornoza, professor of the Department of Geography at UV, provides the necessary information. mejorar la gestion de la emergencyas it facilitates impact assessment, management of assistance to affected persons and development of proposals. Reconstruction of damaged areas.
The result of this work is included as a flood reference information in the Instituto Cartográfico Valencia dentro del visor oficial. Zornoza is part of the INNODES group and participates in projects communication with management and metropolitan strategies.
Javier Serrano and Ana Belen Ruescas from the same Department of Geography also participated in the development, informed UV. Serrano, project researcher on the development of social resilience before flood risk in the context of climate change, coordinated. citizen's right to participate. Professors Ruescas, Enrique Portales and Luis Gómez-Chiva from the Image Processing Laboratory of the University of Valencia collaborated to obtain Satellite images and post-processing data.
The methodology of creating cartography is a part of it Initial delimitation Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping is best required in different zones. This requires a combination Advanced teledetector techniques y participation ciudadana, que permitieron tener un buen conocimiento del área afectada en un corto plazo.
The area surrounded by Dana River is 562.7 km2, part of which consists of houses, companies and infrastructures. According to the professor's calculations, the last cuatro covers the surface of the city of Valencia (139.34 square kilometers), its pedanias and the municipal area, including Lake Albufera.
Data from multiple sources are used: 2.5 meter resolution provided by Tracasa Global and the Image and Signal Processing group, la detection de barro It was carried out by Yves Julien from the Universidad de Cambio Global de la Universidad y la información de personas que conoen zonas afectadas.
It was essential to create good delimitation so that the flood could affect people, infrastructure and services once it occurred. Safety information is available has a good territorial base Urgent care is needed to restore the emergency. “Esta create an important and formative convir of cartographic era en la que mejor podiamos ayudarpuesto que tenemos las tecniques y el conocimiento del territorio necessario,” said Zornoza.
The citizen participation phase collected information from local agencies and affected individuals, providing accurate information on the extent of flooding in their areas. “This is a first approximationthis will be improved by additional field studies, but the first-hand information of the people involved in the disaster was the basis for doing it in record time, only una semana después del sucesso, Serrano concluded.
The work was developed by Ana Camarasa, professor of physical geography and director of the RIUMED research group. various research projects It is funded by both the central government and the Generalitat to study torrential rains and their effects in Mediterranean basins. social education tools Inundaciones ante el risego de inundaciones, agraviadas and in the actual climate context.
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