Skill and Tools: LandSat image and classification tool in ArcMap.
This is my final paper for Human Geography of Hazards class in which I look into the vulnerability of Wuhan city to Waterlogging event. For the paper, I included the final research project I did for my Remote Sensing for Geoscience class as part of the evidence, in which I looked into the potential lake area change of Wuhan city as a whole and five specific lakes using LandSat image and classification tool in ArcMap.
Wuhan’s Shrinking Lake – Remote Sensing on Wuhan’s 2016 Urban Waterlogging Event
Spearheaded the creation of classified maps of Wuhan City and four lakes: Nanhu, Shaihu, Shahu, and Donghu Lake using Landsat images in ArcMap.
Handled the calculation and comparison of the total lake area and the four specific lakes in metropolitan Wuhan City, China in 1989, 2002 and 2016.
Abstract
In 2016, a series of unexpected storms paralyzed much of the City of Wuhan in central China, leading to severe waterlogging in the city (Figure 2.1, 2.2, and 2.3). The waterlogging event is believed to be the largest after the catastrophic 1998 flood when the entire city was heavily devastated. Though Wuhan is not the only victim of the 2016 waterlogging event, people raised their attention again to this large city in Central China, which has long been vulnerable to waterlogging caused by various flooding and storm events, including the 1931, 1954, and 1998 Yangtze river flood. This paper aims to understand Wuhan’swaterlogging event, especially how inadequate research and the understanding of vulnerability, urban development and governmental policy and inadequacy lead to Wuhan’s high vulnerability may increase its vulnerability.
Key words: Wuhan, vulnerability, flood, waterlogging, Urban development, Chinese politics
• “Jiusheng Tongqu”：Vulnerability of Wuhan, China to urban waterlogging events