European Directive 2007/60/EC requires flood risk management plans across member states. This dataset contains mapped floodable areas for the Saint-Dié-Baccarat region in France, produced for reporting under this directive. Its primary objective is to homogenize knowledge of flood exposure to aid in developing flood risk management plans.
Use Cases
- Producing flood surface maps based on the described flood hazard representation.
- Creating flood risk maps based on the described representation of exposed issues.
- Assessing territorial vulnerability for high, medium, and low flood probability levels as mentioned in the description.
Strengths
- Produced under a standardized European legal framework (Directive 2007/60/EC).
- Designed for mapping flood hazards and risks on an appropriate scale.
Limitations
- Last updated 2019-04-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Collection Method
- Series of geographical data produced by the GIS High Flood Risk Land Flood Directive (TRI) and mapped for reporting.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-04-01 00:00:00
- Geography
- Saint-Dié-Baccarat region, France