BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES produced this dataset for reporting under the European Flood Directive. It contains challenges related to linear infrastructure whose flooding can aggravate crisis management. The data is used to produce maps of exposed issues at an appropriate scale.
Use Cases
- Mapping flood exposure of linear infrastructure based on the described flood risk challenges.
- Informing flood prevention strategy and crisis management plans based on the European Directive 2007/60/EC requirements.
- Contributing to the homogenization and objectivation of flood exposure knowledge for developing flood risk management plans (WRMs).
Strengths
- Produced by a specific geological and mining research bureau (BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES).
- Created for a defined regulatory purpose under European Directive 2007/60/EC and French national law.
Limitations
- Last updated 2019-03-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and file format are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES
- Collection Method
- Produced for reporting purposes for the European Flood Directive.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-03-29 00:00:00
- Geography
- New-Aquitaine region, specifically the sorting of Agen.