GIS for Disaster Resilience:

Beyond Flood Hazard Mapping

By: Engr. Joe Nino E. Orapa, QA SME, Airbus Defence & Space

Abstract

The University of the Philippines (UP) Disaster Risk and Exposure Assessment for Mitigation (DREAM)
and Phil-LiDAR 1 Programs, supported by the Department of Science and Technology (DOST), have
produced flood hazard maps for 18 critical major river basins and 257 minor river basins in the
Philippines reaching virtually a nationwide coverage in response to the echoing stakeholder's need
towards disaster mitigation. The Programs flood mapping methodology includes the development of
watershed hydrologic model for each river basin based on the Hydrologic Engineering Center
Hydrologic Modelling System (HEC-HMS) and using this model to compute the discharge values that
quantifies the amount of water entering the floodplain, and then using these discharge values as
inputs in two-dimensional flood simulations using FLO-2D GDS Pro to generate static flood hazard
and depth maps of the flood plains. In this paper,

Every day, millions of hours are wasted on the road worldwide. This will directly translate to loss of
productivity, and more money spent on fuel and energy. In many mega cities, like metro Manila, JICA
report shows a staggering Php 3.5 Billion is wasted due to traffic congestion daily. In addition,
worsening traffic congestions contribute to increasing carbon emission, and heat island effects,
while increasing commuter’s stress levels and pollution-related diseases.

In this paper, we will be exploring the potential of Autonomous Vehicles (AV) and On-demand
aviation, to radically improve urban mobility, giving people back time lost due to traffic, and to
achieve some of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The City Airbus self-driving and
autonomous flying taxi will be featured, as an example.

While the Urban Air Transport solution can easily be implemented in new Urban Development and
Future SMART Cities using Geodesign and GIS, its impact to existing urban infrastructure would
require thorough assessment and further scenario analysis on the natural and built environment.

It is the objective of this presentation toshowcaseGIS applicationto assess existing infrastructure and
community conditions, to design future scenarios and to measure scenarios with sustainable
development criteria and performance indicators. In addition, the latest GIS approaches and
developments in urban development, city planning and civil engineering fields will be shown using
ESRI ArcGIS software. Various online sources, maps and open data sources will also be highlighted.