Elevation Data for Floodplain Mapping
eBook - ePub

Elevation Data for Floodplain Mapping

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eBook - ePub

Elevation Data for Floodplain Mapping

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About this book

Floodplain maps serve as the basis for determining whether homes or buildings require flood insurance under the National Flood Insurance Program run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Approximately $650 billion in insured assets are now covered under the program. FEMA is modernizing floodplain maps to better serve the program. However, concerns have been raised as to the adequacy of the base map information available to support floodplain map modernization.Elevation Data for Floodplain Mapping shows that there is sufficient two-dimensional base map imagery to meet FEMA's flood map modernization goals, but that the three-dimensional base elevation data that are needed to determine whether a building should have flood insurance are not adequate. This book makes recommendations for a new national digital elevation data collection program to redress the inadequacy.Policy makers; property insurance professionals; federal, local, and state governments; and others concerned with natural disaster prevention and preparedness will find this book of interest.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2007
eBook ISBN
9780309185554
Edition
0
Topic
Physical Sciences

Table of contents

  1. COVER PAGE
  2. THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES
  3. COMMITTEE ON FLOODPLAIN MAPPING TECHNOLOGIES
  4. MAPPING SCIENCE COMMITTEE
  5. BOARD ON EARTH SCIENCES AND RESOURCES
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Contents
  9. Summary
  10. CHAPTER ONE Introduction
  11. CHAPTER TWO Flood Mapping
  12. CHAPTER THREE FEMA’S Map Modernization Program
  13. CHAPTER FOUR Remote Sensing Technologies for Floodplain Mapping
  14. CHAPTER FIVE Assessment of Floodplain Mapping Technologies
  15. CHAPTER SIX Conclusions and Recommendations
  16. References
  17. Appendixes