Mapping Major Floods in Quebec, Canada from April-May 2017
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Description
Quebec, Canada, experienced major spring floods in April-May 2017 affecting regions including Montérégie, Laurentides, Mauricie, Montréal, and Laval. The dataset contains geomatic data, such as satellite images, captured to document these floods, which exceeded a 100-year recurrence interval. It is provided by the Government and Municipalities of Québec under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
Modeling flood extent and severity based on satellite imagery captured during the event.
Analyzing hydrological peak conditions based on described flow rates (e.g., 3400 m3/s on Rivière des Prairies).
Assessing infrastructure and land-use vulnerability in flood-prone regions of Quebec.
Calibrating flood recurrence models using the documented 100-year exceedance event.
Strengths
Documents a specific, high-impact flood event exceeding a 100-year recurrence interval.
Includes precise hydrological measurements from official sources, such as a peak flow of 8900 m3/s on the Ottawa River.
Offers data in multiple geospatial formats (WMS, SHP, GEOJSON) for flexibility in analysis.
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Description metadata was translated via an automated tool, which may introduce ambiguities.
Provenance
Source
Government and Municipalities of Québec
Collection Method
Geomatic data capture, including satellite imagery.
Time Range
April-May 2017, with peak measurements on May 8, 2017.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-22 17:37:46.307967; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Lake of Two Mountains, Lake Saint-Pierre, Rivières des Prairies and Mille-Îles, and Ottawa River in Quebec, Canada.
Data description was translated using Amazon Translate; original French context may be relevant.