Tarn, France, areas exposed to flood hazards as defined for the Risk Prevention Plan (PPR). The dataset represents zones graduated by hazard level, synthesized from multiple sources of calculated, modelled, or observed data. It was published by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and last updated on April 7, 2021.
Use Cases
- Modeling flood risk exposure for insurance or emergency planning based on hazard zoning.
- Informing land-use and development regulations based on the graduated hazard levels.
- Integrating hazard zones with other geospatial data for multi-risk analysis, as the description mentions multi-hazard PPRs.
Strengths
- Hazard zones are graduated according to level, providing a detailed risk scale.
- Areas protected by structures are included, accounting for potential failure scenarios.
- Data is a synthesis from multiple sources of hazard data, as stated in the description.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2021-04-07 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Collection Method
- Synthesis from multiple sources of calculated, modelled, or observed hazard data.
- Freshness
- 2021-04-07 00:00:00
- Geography
- Tarn, France