The Flood Study Summary Services support discovery and retrieval of
flood hazard information. The services return metadata and data for
flood studies and flood inundation maps held in the 'Australian Flood
Studies Database'. The same information is available through a user
interface at http://www.ga.gov.au/flood-study-web/.A 'flood
study' is a comprehensive technical investigation of flood behaviour. It
defines the nature and extent flood hazard across the floodplain by
providing information on the extent, level and velocity of floodwaters
and on the distribution of flood flows. Flood studies are typically
commissioned by government, and conducted by experts from specialist
engineering firms or government agencies. Key outputs from flood studies
include detailed reports, and maps showing inundation, depth, velocity
and hazard for events of various likelihoods.The services are
deliverables fom the National Flood Risk Information Project. The main
aim of the project is to make flood risk information accessible from a
central location. Geoscience Australia will facilitate this through the
development of the National Flood Risk Information Portal. Over the four
years the project will launch a new phase of the portal prior to the
commencement of each annual disaster season. Each phase will increase
the amount of flood risk information that is publicly accessible and
increase stakeholder capability in the production and use of flood risk
information.flood-study-search returns summary layers and links
to rich metadata about flood maps and the studies that produced them.
flood-study-map returns layers for individual flood inundation maps.
Typically a single layer shows the flood inundation for a particular
likelihood or historical event in a flood study area.To retrieve flood inundation maps from these services, we recommend:1. querying flood-study-search to obtain flood inundation map URIs, then2. using the flood inundation map URIs to retrieve maps separately from flood-study-map.The
ownership of each flood study remains with the commissioning
organisation and/or author as indicated with each study, and users of
the database should refer to the reports themselves to determine any
constraints in their usage.
