| Summary: Flood is one of the natural disasters that cause social and economic disasters all over the world. Countries that are fighting with floods think that it will be easier to struggle with floods with the "Integrated Flood Management" approach to increase public awareness and to reduce the costs and number of people affected from floods. In this context, the European Parliament emphasized the necessity of determining flood risks and ensuring risk management in member and candidate countries with the Flood Directive (2007/60 / EC). In this study, flood maps produced in major European countries (England, France, Germany and Czech Republic) have been examined and major types of flood maps they produced are determined. When producing these maps, the probabilities considered (0.1%, 0.5%, 3.3%, etc.), the recurrence periods taken (HQ = 30, HQ = 100, HQ = 1000, etc.), the parameters (depth, flow rate, etc.) utilized when constructing the flood model, the dimentions of the model (1-D, 2-D, etc.), base maps used and their scales, spatial resolutions of the used orthohptos and satellite images, spatial resolutions of Digital Terrain Models (DTM) and Digital Surface Models (DSM), are determined. In addition, responsibilities and authorities of institutions related to flood risk management, and the legislation regarding flood in these countries have been examined. Finally, the current situations in these countries and Turkey have been compared.
Key Words: Flood, Flood Hazard Map, Flood Risk Map, Remote Sensing |
