Early Flood Warning System at River Swat with Special Emphasis on District Khawazakhela

Abstract

Flood warning has been an important issue for Pakistan. In this study we considered district Khavazakhela KPK. We used GIS techniques for this purpose. i.e.Global Mapper, ARC-GIS, Hec-HMS. . The objective of this study was to develop a flow model for Khuvazakhela, for this purpose we processed the DEM ofKhavazakhela, took FAO soil data. We developed landcover on ERDAS IMAGINE and created the CN Grid. The main theme of the project is to enlighten the significance of GIS based approach in the field of hydrology and disaster management.