Spatial flood risk mapping and forecasting using GIS and remote sensing in Central Vietnam

Floods have been considered the most common and leading cause of natural disasters worldwide. In Vietnam as well as in Canada, more frequent and severe floods have been documented to growing number of negative health outcomes. Alongside concurrent mitigation efforts, developing accurate methods to identify the health impacts of flooding to adapt will be crucial. This postdoctoral project is an extension of the fellow’s PhD research with other aspects of the impacts of floods on two different cultural and different living-way countries/provinces focusing on human health. In this project, the NASA’s MODIS Near Real-Time Global Flood Water (MFW) will be extracted with the support of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Google Earth tools to examine the model showing the relationship between floods and human health, using case studies of Thua-Thien-Hue in Vietnam and New Brunswick in Canada. The approach is implemented using a novel external dataset comprising satellite images, thereby allowing a highly precise and objective geographical measure of flood data. This project will open up a promising research direction that would effectively help address the existing and future challenges of flooding impacts in Canada and Vietnam.

Faculty Supervisor:

Tri Nguyen-Quang

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Partner:

Hoa Sen University ;Hue University of Sciences

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Sustainability & the Environment; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

Dalhousie University

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