Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
ICAR/02 (MARITIME HYDRAULIC CONSTRUCTION AND HYDROLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE
Course
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (05/03/2018 - 15/06/2018)
Lesson hours
45 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Learning outcomes
to perform the flood risk analysis of a territory and its main assets
Course contents
1. Main hydrological processes
2. Hydrological and hydraulic models for the flood simulation
3. Definition of flood risk
4. The hazard factor: methods and models for the assessment
5. The vulnerability factor: data, methods and models for the assessment
6. The exposure factor: data and their organization
7. Models for the computation of flood risk
8. Creating maps with QGIS
9. R codes for the risk analysis
Teaching methods
a. Oral presentation with the support of slides
b. Training in the computer laboratory
Reccomended or required readings
Course slides
Assessment methods
a. written exam with open questions on theory and application
b. presentation on a real study of flood risk assessment
Further information
During the course they will be used the QGIS software (www.qgis.org) and the R programming code (www.r-project.org)
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