Flood maps produced for the IRR (Initial Risk Assessment) under European Directive 2007/60/EC. The dataset is used to produce flood surface and flood risk maps representing hazards and exposed issues for three probability levels (high, medium, low). It was created by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and last updated on 2019-03-29.
Use Cases
- Assessing flood exposure for human health and economic activity based on the hazard maps described.
- Developing quantitative evidence for territorial vulnerability based on the three probability levels (high, medium, low).
- Contributing to the homogenization of flood knowledge for risk management plans as mentioned in the description.
- Supporting reporting and compliance with the European Flood Directive using the produced maps.
Strengths
- Maps are produced for a specific legal framework (EU Flood Directive 2007/60/EC).
- Data is designed to provide quantitative evidence for three defined flood probability levels.
- Created by a recognized geological and mining research organization (BRGM).
Limitations
- Last updated 2019-03-29; freshness should be verified.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Collection Method
- Produced for the Initial Risk Assessment (IRR) for reporting under the European Flood Directive.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-03-29 00:00:00
- Geography
- New-Aquitaine region, Basque Coast, France