Floodbook: a Social Platform for Flood Hydrology

9 pages•Published: September 20, 2018

Silvia Isacco, Pierluigi Claps, Susanna Grasso, Ennio Ferrari, Maria Bernadette Guercio, Rosaria Ester Musumeci, Graziella Emanuela Scarcella, Pasquale Versace and Francesco Laio

Abstract

New technologies provide a new great source of information, increasing the available knowledge in many different fields, including hydrology. With this work we wish to share with the Hydroinformatics community an attempt in the direction of using the social media to increase the general understanding of the areas affected by flooding events in Italy. We have developed “Floodbook”, an online platform aimed at constituting a database for flood-damaged areas in Italy, trying to fill the knowledge gap of flood events occurring in small and ungauged basins. The platform invites citizens to contribute posting geotagged contents, photos or videos, on the social media; these contents are collected and elaborated to provide a clear, yet rigorous and comprehensive, picture of the event. Some case studies are described to show how this data collection can be used to improve flood extent assessment and flood dynamics reconstruction.

Keyphrases: crowdsourcing, flood, social media, vgi

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 941-949.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/ZsdG
	https://doi.org/10.29007/fb6d

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{HIC2018:Floodbook_Social_Platform_Flood,
  author    = {Silvia Isacco and Pierluigi Claps and Susanna Grasso and Ennio Ferrari and Maria Bernadette Guercio and Rosaria Ester Musumeci and Graziella Emanuela Scarcella and Pasquale Versace and Francesco Laio},
  title     = {Floodbook: a Social Platform for Flood Hydrology},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/ZsdG},
  doi       = {10.29007/fb6d},
  pages     = {941-949},
  year      = {2018}}

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