The Netherlands is extremely successful at an international level when it comes to flood protection. The country has a large number of specialists available in every conceivable area: from the design and construction of dikes, forecasting systems, and decision-supporting systems, through to crisis management, measurement systems and evacuation.
This workshop is co-organized by Deltares and the NOAA National Weather Service Office of Hydrologic Development, and co-sponsored by the Hydrologic Ensemble Prediction Experiment (HEPEX, http://hydis8.eng.uci.edu/hepex/) and the innovation program Flood Control 2015.
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Mission Flood Control 2015
“A really substantial improvement in operational flood protection worldwide.”