European data used to produce maps of issues exposed to flooding, contributing to flood risk management plans. The dataset is produced by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières and was last updated on April 1, 2019. It supports the implementation of European Directive 2007/60/EC and related national laws on flood risk assessment.
Use Cases
- Mapping flood exposure for polluting installations based on the IPPC Directive framework mentioned in the description.
- Contributing to the homogenization and objectification of flood exposure knowledge for risk management plans.
- Supporting the development of flood risk management plans (WRMs) as required by EU and national legislation.
Strengths
- Produced by a named geological and mining research organization (Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières).
- Supports a specific European legal framework (Directive 2007/60/EC and related national laws).
- Last update date is explicitly provided (2019-04-01).
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Last updated 2019-04-01 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières
- Freshness
- Last updated 2019-04-01 00:00:00
- Geography
- Europe