Ambiental announces new flood assessment capability
Ambiental has provided high resolution mapping, return period and advanced depth research to help Chubb Insurance Company of Europe SE assess the severity of flood risk faced by properties.
The new system enables Chubb to review flood risk at the square metre level for individual properties and larger complexes or campus sites. Flood depth is modelled for multiple return periods and visualised using Chubb’s in-house geospatial mapping and risk location aggregation tool. Ambiental’s data supply contract covers every address in England, Wales and the major population centres in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Powered by cloud computing, the unique system utilises high resolution topographic maps supplied by location-based information provider Intermap, in conjunction with Ambiental’s FlowrouteTM flood modelling software, to assess potential flood depths and extents with better accuracy than was previously possible.
Managing Director of Ambiental Dr Justin Butler commented:
“Flood risk analysis is fundamentally difficult because many critical sets of data contain uncertainties and inaccuracies; such as topography and average rainfall. Cloud computing addresses this by processing considerable amounts of information at the same time.”
Dr Butler added “The next step is to integrate our pluvial flood data into this UK-wide system to account for the increases in heavy rainfall and surface water flooding as a result of urbanisation and climate change.”
About Ambiental
Ambiental (www.ambiental.co.uk) is a leading UK-based flood risk assessment company and geospatial data provider. Ambiental operates internationally, helping (re-)insurers, risk managers, utilities, governments, and land / property professionals to better understand, communicate and mitigate flood risk and other natural perils in response to growing legislative, commercial, and environmental drivers. Ambiental’s products include ultra-high detail flood risk databases, digital flood maps, flood modelling software, perils data and risk reports.
Ambiental® and FlowrouteTM are registered trademarks of Ambiental Technical Solutions Limited.
About Intermap
Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap (www.intermap.com) is a leading provider of Location-Based Information (LBI), setting the industry standard for creating high-resolution 3D digital models of the earth’s surface. The Company has remapped entire countries, to build NEXTMap® national databases consisting of affordably priced elevation data and geometric images of unparalleled accuracy. Turnkey solutions can be purchased from the Company’s NEXTMap Online Store, a hosted web services platform offering a variety of subscription levels by geography, data-layer, individual or enterprise wide license. Intermap’s cloud-based hosted model offers customers the most convenient and affordable method to satisfy a customer’s needs with both a Platform as a service (PaaS) and Software as a service (SaaS) options. For more information about Intermap’s web services please visit http://www.intermap.com/en-us/purchase.aspx. Headquartered in Denver, Colorado, Intermap has offices in Calgary, Detroit, Jakarta, London, Munich, Paris, Prague, and Washington, D.C.