Realtime High Resolution Flood Hazard Mapping in Small Catchments

All over the world a lot of cities are located in flood-prone areas and millions of people are exposed to inundation risk. To cope with that the civil protection organism demands efficient tools able to predict flooding risk and the associated ground effects with the goal of social safety. For this reason, the flood forecasting systems on specific river sections, also called hydro-meteorological chains, has become very useful due to the ability to use rainfall observations and predictions to provide in advance a quantitative evaluation of possible ground effects in term of discharge and peak flow.