Using hydroinformatics to predict and manage urban flooding

摘要

Hydroinformatics is an interdisciplinary field, devoted to the application of information technology in the widest sense to solve water and environmental problems. It is a relatively new but well developed field that has emerged in the last 25 years and has made rapid progress. Hydroinformatic techniques are being applied to a range of problems, including, but not limited to, flood forecasting, water quality modelling and water distribution system design and operation. Given the breadth of these applications, this article provides a brief overview of a few of the recent key advances in one area: urban flood management.