flood risk assessment, flood risk map, Flood Dirctive, Slovakia

Assessment of flood risk is one of priorities of policy on European and also national level. Especially after Directive 2007/60/EC requesting this kind of assessment for all countries of EU. It is interesting and also important research question to compare methodologies of flood risk assessment. In this poster, we show you comparison of two semi-quantitative methods for flood risk assessment, which was carry on in 13 km long part of river Turiec, Slovakia. Results shows, both methods detect almost the same area of highest risk, which was primary caused by the land use categories. However the second methods seem to produce more useful results, such as water depth and water velocities maps.