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Communicating flood risk

Posted by: Kate Marks, Posted on: 8 November 2016 - Categories: Flood

Kate Marks, the Environment Agency’s Deputy Director of Flood Risk Mapping, Modelling and Data explains the background to the most recent changes in how we communicate flood risk. I love a good map, I even teach map reading in my spare …

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Free mapping data will elevate flood risk knowledge

Posted by: Dr Alison Matthew, Posted on: 16 June 2015 - Categories: Flood, Regulated industry, Water
Coastal LIDAR data

For the past 17 years we have been capturing LIDAR (Light Detection & Ranging) data in England. LIDAR uses a laser to scan and map the landscape from above and is widely considered to be the best method for collecting …

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