Driss Ouazar: Flood Simulation Integrated Systems: Data - Models - Knowledge - GIS



Flood wave propagation models are an integral component of spatial decision support systems (SDSS) for free surface management and control problems. Nowadays, significant advances have been made in the development of efficient models for dealing with the management and control of water resource issues, especially those tackling with flood and consequent potential damage. Robust numerical flood models have been developed and hybrid 1D-2D-3D models were also implemented linking model components of flood prone areas. Modelling such systems is a complex multi-disciplinary task requiring suitable approaches and techniques to handle the lack of knowledge of some related parameters and data. In order to determine the parameter distribution, so much expensive field-testing would be required that it is seldom technically feasible or economically viable to do so. The focus is on flood forecasting and flood management, with a brief description of the information technologies to support studies of wave propagation. This presentation describes the development of a knowledge based expert system (KBES) which interfaces with other useful tools (GIS, DBMS, Parameter estimation tools, Kriging method, Models ..etc.). Some components illustration are presented.