TY - JOUR
T1 - Flood risk management in sponge cities
T2 - The role of integrated simulation and 3D visualization
AU - Wang, Chen
AU - Hou, Jingming
AU - Miller, David
AU - Brown, Iain
AU - Jiang, Yang
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - The Sponge City concept has been promoted as a major programme of work to address increasing flood risk in urban areas, in combination with wider benefits for water resources and urban renewal. However, realization of the concept requires collaborative engagement with a wide range of professionals and with affected communities. Visualization can play an important role in this process. In this research, a sponge city flood simulation and forecasting system has been built which combines hydrological data, topographic data, GIS data and hydrodynamic models in real-time and interactive display in a three-dimensional environment. Actual and design flood events in a pilot sponge city have been simulated. The validation results show that the simulated urban water accumulation process is consistent with the actual monitoring data. Use of advanced virtual reality technology can enable simulations to be placed in the wider design context including enhanced awareness of multiple functions of urban ecosystems. This procedure can therefore reduce the information communication gap and encourage innovation regarding low impact development required for sponge city construction.
AB - The Sponge City concept has been promoted as a major programme of work to address increasing flood risk in urban areas, in combination with wider benefits for water resources and urban renewal. However, realization of the concept requires collaborative engagement with a wide range of professionals and with affected communities. Visualization can play an important role in this process. In this research, a sponge city flood simulation and forecasting system has been built which combines hydrological data, topographic data, GIS data and hydrodynamic models in real-time and interactive display in a three-dimensional environment. Actual and design flood events in a pilot sponge city have been simulated. The validation results show that the simulated urban water accumulation process is consistent with the actual monitoring data. Use of advanced virtual reality technology can enable simulations to be placed in the wider design context including enhanced awareness of multiple functions of urban ecosystems. This procedure can therefore reduce the information communication gap and encourage innovation regarding low impact development required for sponge city construction.
KW - 3D visualization
KW - Flood risk management
KW - GIS
KW - Low impact development
KW - Sponge city
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85063937907&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101139
DO - 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2019.101139
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85063937907
VL - 39
JO - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
JF - International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
SN - 2212-4209
ER -