Author(s)

Khemiri Sami, Ben Alaya Mohsen, Khnissi Afef, Zargouni Fouad

Department of Geology, University of Sciences of Tunis, Manar, Tunisia.
Water Research and Technology Center, Solimane, Tunisia.

This study lies within the scope of a strategy of prevention from inundations by the contribution of new technology in stage of the hydrological and geomorphological modeling for protection against the floods in a medium of weak at the average risk in South-eastern Tunisia, starting from the catchment area of Zeuss-Koutine. Considering the lack of studies we were brought to extract the area catchment in question, and to deduce its geomorphological and hydrometric characteristics, starting from the digital terrain model. We could obtain, by overlaying maps of slopes, indices and flows, the hydrological zonation of the catchment area of Zeuss-Koutine. The hydrological study of the basin’s slopes of Zeuss-Koutine is not lying out that very little physical information rests primarily on cartographic processes. The use of the latter can be regarded as an allowing indicator, by the crossing of the explanatory factors of the surface flow (slopes and direction of flow), to define a set of homogeneous hydrological zones in the level of the hydrological characteristics (average slopes, altitudes, roughness, etc). It is mainly a question of better taking account of the physical properties of the basins slopes.

Degree Flood Risk; GIS; Geodatabase; Flood Zones; Hydrological Modeling

K. Sami, B. Mohsen, K. Afef and Z. Fouad, "Hydrological Modeling Using GIS for Mapping Flood Zones and Degree Flood Risk in Zeuss-Koutine Basin (South of Tunisia)," Journal of Environmental Protection, Vol. 4 No. 12, 2013, pp. 1409-1422. doi: 10.4236/jep.2013.412161.