Flood Risk Territory Characteristics for Tonneins-Marmande, Aquitaine

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES produced this dataset describing the right-of-way and useful characteristics of the flood-risk territory in the Tonneins-Marmande area of Aquitaine, France. It was created for reporting under the European Flood Directive (2007/60/EC) and is used to produce flood hazard and risk maps. The dataset was last updated on 2019-03-29.

Use Cases

• Generate flood surface maps based on described flood hazard characteristics.
• Create flood risk maps by combining hazard data with exposed issues mentioned in the description.
• Assess territorial vulnerability for high, medium, and low flood probability levels as defined by the directive.
• Support the homogenization and objectification of flood exposure knowledge for regional planning.

Strengths

• Produced by a national geological and mining research bureau (BRGM), suggesting institutional authority.
• Explicitly designed to meet the legal requirements of the European Flood Directive (2007/60/EC).
• Intended for use in creating quantitative evidence for vulnerability assessment across three flood probability levels.

Limitations

• Last updated 2019-03-29; freshness should be verified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Collection Method

Produced for reporting purposes under the European Flood Directive, likely involving geospatial analysis.

Freshness

Last updated 2019-03-29 00:00:00

Geography

Tonneins-Marmande area, Aquitaine region, France