New estimates of flood exposure in developing countries using high-resolution population data

Flood risk modelling neglects the location of people and assets. Here the authors applied machine learning techniques and high-resolution population data to reinvestigate the impact of population distributions on flood exposure and showed that populations are generally represented as risk-averse and...

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Main Authors: Andrew Smith, Paul D. Bates, Oliver Wing, Christopher Sampson, Niall Quinn, Jeff Neal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09282-y