BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES produced a table of speed field points for reporting under the European Flood Directive. The dataset provides estimated water flow speed and direction for specific flood scenarios and probability levels. It was last updated on 2019-03-29 and is used to generate flood hazard and risk maps.
Use Cases
- Generate flood hazard maps based on estimated water flow speed and direction.
- Assess territorial vulnerability for high, medium, and low flood probability levels.
- Develop quantitative evidence for flood risk management plans (PGRIs).
- Objectify and homogenize knowledge of flood exposure across regions.
Strengths
- Produced by a national geological and mining research bureau (BRGM), suggesting institutional authority.
- Created for a specific regulatory purpose (European Flood Directive 2007/60/EC), ensuring a defined scope.
- Designed to produce quantitative evidence for three distinct 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 is 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.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-03-29 00:00:00
- Geography
- Aquitaine region, specifically Pau Sorting area.