Crowdsourced data for flood hydrology: Feedback from recent citizen science projects in Argentina, France and New Zealand
- Le Coz, Jérôme
- Patalano, Antoine
- Collins, Daniel
- Guillén, Nicolás Federico
- García, Carlos Marcelo
- Smart, Graeme M.
- Bind, Jochen
- Chiaverini, Antoine
- Le Boursicaud, Raphaël
- Dramais, Guillaume
- Braud, Isabelle
DOIAbstract
New communication and digital image technologies have enabled the public to produce large quantities of flood observations and share them through social media. In addition to flood incident reports, valuable hydraulic data such as the extent and depths of inundated areas and flow rate estimates can be computed using messages, photos and videos produced by citizens. Such crowdsourced data help improve the understanding and modelling of flood hazard. Since little feedback on similar initiatives is available, we introduce three recent citizen science projects which have been launched independently by research organisations to quantitatively document flood flows in catchments and urban areas of Argentina, France, and New Zealand. Key drivers fo...
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