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infrastructure, crops, etc., both for the world and Europe. Five research hypotheses
as pre-research predictions were proposed in this chapter. To respond to the
problem statement and the hypothesis behind this study, the research put forward
five objectives: first, to increase the quality of the DEM; second, to detect flood
hazard assessment; third, to simulate the variability of flood crisis scenarios for
dyke failure; fourth, to find any probable abrupt points and trend analysis in spatial
distribution of the observed data set; and finally, to detect land use change over
time. The research approach was then designed and described based on five
objectives in three phases of premodeling, modeling, and postmodeling. The
research was formulated and the thesis structure outlined in eight chapters.
The next chapter provides a theoretical background to the DEM, interpolation
techniques, flood hazard, climate change, and land use change.

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