Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana GIS AND TERRAIN ANALYSIS FOR UNDERSTANDING WATER PROCESSES AND FEATURES Fernando Nardi University for Foreigners of Perugia Talk @ Unesco Chair Inaugural Meeng Perugia, Italy, March 11th, 2014 UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Outlines • River basin Terrain Analysis (TA) using GIS • Standard GIS TA vs experimental methods • Hydrogeomorphic applicaons: Flood(plain) mapping • Ongoing research: Large scale engineering applicaons UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana ASTER • Raster DTM ASTER • 30m • Integer precision hp://asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov/gdem.asp UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana …and processes UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana DEM-based Terrain Analysis using GIS Analyzing terrain surface properes (elevaon, land use,..) for deriving hydrogeomorpic parameters: Direct: slope, curvature, aspect Indirect: flow direcon, drainage area Features: stream network, drainage basin, floodplain, hillslope Processes: deposion, erosion, land/water dynamics (i.e. landsliding/ flooding) UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Filling sinks Flow direcon Contribung area Watershed Hydrologic processing of DEMs for delineaon stream network extracon Stream Network UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Flat areas and pit removal experimental tools Nardi, F., Grimaldi, S., Sanni, M, Petroselli,A., Uberni, L., Hydrological Science Journal, 2008 Grimaldi S., Nardi F., Di Benedeo F., Istanbulluoglu E., Bras R.L., Advances in Water Resources, 2007 UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Floodplain cross secon idenficaon UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Po river basin (North Italy) Area 75,000 km2 Channel flow depths: up to 44 m Stream network source contrib. area: 500 km2 Floodplain area: 5178 km2 to 14976 km2 UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Po river basin (North Italy) 500 yrs Flood/Inundaon maps -> 10,300 km2 Lake areas: 1000 km2 Floodplain area: 5178 km2 to 14976 km2 UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Zambesi river basin (Southern Africa) Area 1,390,000 km2 Stream network source contrib. area: 500 km2 Floodplain area: 37,250 km2 UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Zambesi river basin (Southern Africa) UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana The Tiber river case study How do the hydrogeomorphic floodplain behaves as respect to standard flood/ inundaon maps? Nardi F., Biscarini C., Di Francesco S., Manciola P., Uberni L., Irrigaon and Drainage, 2013 UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana The Tiber river case study Nardi F., Biscarini C., Di Francesco S., Manciola P., Uberni L., Irrigaon and Drainage, 2013 UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Tiber river basin UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Tiber river basin UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Tiber river basin UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Large scale urban/land engineering Floodplain idenficaon for Italy UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Large scale urban/land engineering Indexing water-related phenomena UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana References GIS Terrain analysis Nardi F., Vivoni E. R., Grimaldi S., Investigating a floodplain scaling relation using a hydrogeomorphic delineation method, Water Resources Research, 42 (9), 15 pp., 2006. Grimaldi S., Nardi F., Di Benedetto F., Istanbullouglu E., Bras R.L., A physically-based method for removing pits in digital elevation models, Advances in Water Resources, 30 (10), pp. 2151-2158, 2007. Nardi F., Grimaldi S., Santini M., Petroselli A., Ubertini L., Hydrogeomorphic properties of simulated drainage patterns using digital elevation models: the flat area issue, Hydrological Science Journal, 53 (6), pp. 1176-1193, 2008. Santini M., Grimaldi S., Rulli M.C., Petroselli A., Nardi F., Pre-Processing algorithms and landslide modelling on remotely sensed DEMs, Geomorphology, 113 (1-2), pp. 110-125, 2009. Nardi F., Biscarini C., Di Francesco S., Manciola P., Ubertini L., comparing a large-scale dem-based floodplain delineation algorithm with standard flood maps: the Tiber river basin case study, Irrig. and Drain. 62 (Suppl. 2): 11–19, 2013 WFIUH rainfall-runoff models Grimaldi S., Petroselli A., Alonso G., Nardi F., Flow time estimation with variable hillslope velocity in ungauged basins, Advances in Water Resources, 33 (10), 216-1223, 2010. Grimaldi S., Petroselli A., Nardi F., A parsimonious geomorphological unit hydrograph for rainfall runoff modeling in small ungauged basins, Hydrological Science Journal, 57(1), 73-83, 2012. Flood Mapping Grimaldi S., Petroselli A., Arcangeletti E., Nardi F., Flood mapping in ungauged basins using fully continuous hydrologic-hydraulic modelling, Journal of Hydrology, in press. UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by Unesco Chair «Water Resources Management and Culture» Inaugural Meeng MARCH 11, 2014 University for Foreigners of Perugia - Palazzo Gallenga Sala Goldoniana Contact Info [email protected] @fnardi hp://www.unescowaterchair.org/ UNESCO and WATER SCIENTIFIC MEETING SERIES SM S3 jointly organized by .