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a) the factual part which includes the data needed to safeguard specific buildings,
municipal districts, basins or other regional units against flood events, as well as
the authoritative limits for announcing the flood stages;
b) the organizational part which includes lists of names, addresses and ways of
connection between the participants in flood protection, tasks for individual
participants in flood protection, as well as organization of the warning service
and security guards;
c) the graphical part which usually includes maps or plans with the drawings of
flood areas, evacuation routes and concentration points, water gauges, and
information points.
This article deals with the implementation of geoinformatic technologies mainly
into the third, i.e. graphical part of local flood management plans. One of the
constituent objectives is the analysis and comparison of organizational and project
structures of the flood management documentation at local levels between Scotland
and the CR, especially in the extent in which geoinformatics is implemented in
those documents. In this respect, Scotland was chosen on purpose since there are
flood events caused not only by rainfall (with the average annual amount 1,570 mm/
year—MetOffice almost doubling that in the CR 820 mm/year—Czech hydrome-
teorological institute), but also by high tide, but mostly by the combination of these
two factors. Historically, this northern country has been struggling with flood
events for long time, and therefore it offers a suitable model for those purposes
not only in the frame of Central European countries. The aim of the comparison in
the above described sense is the investigation of practical usability of the GIS
analyses for the increase of information value contained in the local flood manage-
ment plans in the CR.
The main objective of this article is to suggest implementation possibilities of
the GIS analyses into local flood management plans within the area of the
CR. Individual analyses and models are tested on the case study of a flood
management plan in the village of Hosta
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ovice.
Methods and Data
The comparison of approaches and GIS implementations in the creation of local
flood management plans within the area of the CR was performed in the form of
consultation with employees of Czech Hydrometeorological Institute, Odra River
Basin Management, Morava River Basin Management and private subjects dealing
with the execution of local flood management plans. In Scotland, the following
institutions were visited for this purpose: Inverness College—University of High-
lands and Islands, Scottish Natural Heritage, The Highland Council and Scottish
Environmental Protection Agency.
