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Using SDI
to improve
flood risk
management
One of the greatest challenges facing local The SDI supports Open GIS Consortium standards Above: The SDI can be used
authorities is the need to plan for future and provides a mechanism to update, publish
on standard web browsers,
reducing the need for significant
housing growth in the face of climate change. and share spatial information through standard
investments in IT infrastructure.
Sharing and maintaining the vast amount of web browsers and industry leading tools, thus
spatial information required for strategic spatial reducing the need for significant investment in
planning across a large region, has until now, IT infrastructure. The success of the SDI solution
posed a significant challenge. has led to Atkins providing it on an ongoing basis
through a hosted service.
The Partnership for Urban South Hampshire (PUSH)
commissioned Atkins to undertake a Strategic Flood
“ This sophisticated web based mapping approach is an
Risk Assessment (SFRA) for the South Hampshire
important part of the toolkit for assessing flood risk at
sub-region, a 600km² area including the cities of
Portsmouth and Southampton.
a strategic level and is already being used by planning
officers when considering housing allocations and for
The project aimed to provide local authorities
controlling development… it has been a pleasure to work
with the spatial information required to plan for
sustainable development which avoids areas of
with Atkins throughout this project.” Lyall Cairns, PUSH
flood risk. This resulted in the creation of flood
outlines, maps of flood hazards, outlines showing The website is also being utilised by Flood Risk
the changing extent of flood risk as a result of Managers and Emergency Planners in assessing
MArTIn
climate change, information on surface water and the vulnerability of existing communities to
FOrD
groundwater flooding and the level of existing flooding. As an added advantage, the website Principal
flood defences. is available to the public therefore potentially
Consultant
reducing the effort required by local authorities GEOSPATIAl
The large volume of spatial data developed meant in responding to planning queries relating to
T: 01372 756875
that traditional forms of dissemination in paper flood risk.
martin.ford@atkinsglobal.com
format or on a single GIS workstation could prove
to be a challenge across 11 local authorities. The SDI is proving to be a sophisticated
operational tool. In this instance, the ability to
TOnI
ByrES
In response, Atkins developed an innovative web easily access the SFRA spatial data will be vital
Senior
based mapping solution utilising the Atkins Spatial in keeping the growing communities of South
Consultant
Data Infrastructure (SDI). This enables users to Hampshire safe from flooding.
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access the information in an efficient and interactive
COASTAl
manner against a background of Ordnance Survey The PUSH SDI web can be viewed at T: 01372 756499
base mapping that provides location information.
http://push.atkinsgeospatial.com n
toni.byres@atkinsglobal.com
solutions | Autumn 2008
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