Smart Solutions for Municipal Flood Management: Overview of Literature, Trends, and Applications in German Cities

IF 7 Q1 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

Smart Cities Pub Date : 2023-03-13 DOI:10.3390/smartcities6020046

Neven Josipovic, Kathrin Viergutz

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Abstract

The paper outlines the challenges municipalities face when it comes to dealing with flood disasters and identifies general concepts for smart solutions that address the challenges and help cities to improve their flood resilience. It follows a unique and novel transdisciplinary approach in that it condenses the scientific literature to the most salient concepts in the fields of big data, digital twins, and remote sensing and support. As for big data applications, their main improvement to conventional flood management stems from the integration of different data streams to improve situational awareness. Digital twins not only help to improve the speed and quality of management decisions by visualizing complex data in a simple and accessible way during a disaster; they can also simulate the evolution of a disaster while taking into account the unique characteristics and conditions of a city, thereby acting as a critical element of an early warning system. Remote sensing and support with UAV solve the problem of physical and informational access to a disaster zone. In conclusion, the paper shows that smart solutions can be of great benefit for flood management, and that cities should strive to enhance existing infrastructure and processes with digital technologies.

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城市洪水管理的智能解决方案：德国城市的文献、趋势和应用综述

该文件概述了市政当局在应对洪水灾害时面临的挑战，并确定了应对挑战并帮助城市提高抗洪能力的智能解决方案的一般概念。它采用了一种独特而新颖的跨学科方法，将科学文献浓缩为大数据、数字孪生、遥感和支持领域最突出的概念。至于大数据应用，它们对传统洪水管理的主要改进源于不同数据流的集成，以提高态势感知能力。数字孪生不仅有助于在灾难期间以简单易用的方式可视化复杂数据，从而提高管理决策的速度和质量；它们还可以模拟灾害的演变，同时考虑到城市的独特特征和条件，从而成为预警系统的关键要素。无人机遥感和支持解决了进入灾区的物理和信息访问问题。总之，论文表明，智能解决方案可以为洪水管理带来巨大好处，城市应该努力用数字技术增强现有的基础设施和流程。

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11.20

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6.20%

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审稿时长

11 weeks

期刊介绍： Smart Cities (ISSN 2624-6511) provides an advanced forum for the dissemination of information on the science and technology of smart cities, publishing reviews, regular research papers (articles) and communications in all areas of research concerning smart cities. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible, with no restriction on the maximum length of the papers published so that all experimental results can be reproduced.