Floodplain Analysis

with ArcGIS Model

Builder

Donghyun Rim
University of Texas at Austin
What is floodplain and why
is it important?
 Floodplain - the lowland adjacent to a river,
lake or ocean.
 Floodplains are designated by the frequency of
the flood that is large enough to cover them.
 The National Flood Insurance Program has
established a minimum standard of protection
against the 100-year flood.
 Flood damage reduction – critical interest
Work Site

Austin
Waller Creek
Conceptual Process
1. Rainfall input
2. Topologic dataset of the
watershed of Waller Creek
3. Runoff Simulation by using
HEC-HMS
4. Calculation of water
surface-elevations along the
channel with HEC-RAS
5. Transformation of water-
surface elevation to a
unique inundation area
known as flood plain
Marvelous Toolbox-
MAP2MAP

Developed by Oscar Robayo

 Rainfall Map to Flood
Inundation Map
Transfer Data from
NEXRAD Import into
NEXRAD Cell to
Rainfall Data Geodatabase
Subbasins

Streamflow Export Timeseries of

HEC-HMS Rainfall to HEC-DSS
Hydrographs

Runoff Data Water Surface

(HEC-DSS) to HEC-RAS Elevation File
GIS

Polygon as Convert WSE Import to GIS as

Inundated Area to WS TIN XML Format
 Data Collection
1. NEXRAD Rainfall Data 2. Topological Hydrography
3. HEC-HMS 4. HEC-RAS
5.DEM 6. Orthographic Photo
Creation of Compatible
Data
Result for Rosillo Creek
 Future Work
 Use of 10 m cell DEM for delineation
of Watershed.
 Perform Map2Map run for Waller
Creek.
 Use of rainfall for another time
period
 Special thanks to
 Dr. Maidment
 Oscar Robayo
 Laton Carr