Flash flood susceptibility modelling: a review

Abstract

Flash flood is common problem in the developed or developing country especially in urban areas. This is due to the changes of land use, poor planning of drainage system, deforestation and unplanned land use and etc. Flash flood susceptibility modelling (FFSM) for urban area is important to avoid the loss and etc. FFSM can be vital component and essential tools for planning and management of natural disaster and environmental. The objective of this paper is to review selected paper on flash flood susceptibility modelling using Geographic Information System (GIS) coupling empirical models. A lot of methods have been coupling with GIS to developed flood susceptibility modelling, for example, Weight of Evidence, Random Forest, etc. However, there is still lack of susceptibility model for flash flood. The GIS coupling method can improve the accuracy of flood susceptibility modelling. Thus, this paper will review the ability of GIS coupling with empirical models for the flash flood susceptibility modelling.