Print Email Facebook Twitter Evaluating the impact of Room for the River flood management measures on vegetation health and diversity in the Netherlands via optical remote sensing Title Evaluating the impact of Room for the River flood management measures on vegetation health and diversity in the Netherlands via optical remote sensing Author Spriggs, A.M.S. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering) Mosselman, E. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering; Deltares) Schielen, R.M.J. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering; Rijkswaterstaat) Stancanelli, L.M. (TU Delft Rivers, Ports, Waterways and Dredging Engineering) Date 2024 Abstract Recent policy initiatives in Europe emphasize a movement towards nature-based solutions in flood management; however, a quantitative relationship between specific flood management measures and indicators of ecological health and biodiversity is difficult to establish (Penning et al., 2023). In the Netherlands, several studies have been conducted on floodplain vegetation monitoring; however, these studies are primarily focused on monitoring changes to hydraulic roughness for flood risk assessment (Harezlak et al., 2020; Penning & van de Vries, 2020). These works provide an opportunity to expand upon existing research to explicitly connect river management practices with indicators of floodplain biodiversity change in the Netherlands. In this study, we utilize publicly available geospatial data to identify changes in land use, vegetation classification and spectral indicators of vegetation health at restoration sites associated with the Room for the River (RftR) program in the Netherlands. Completed in 2018, RftR involved over 30 river management projects constructed to reduce flood risk by lowering peak water levels (Mosselman, 2022). Our objective is to quantify the impact of ecologically focused RftR projects on habitat heterogeneity and river connectivity in the surrounding floodplains. Subject river restorationremote sensingGISbiodiversityNormalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)vegetation classification To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:33e4fff4-45ce-4bde-b007-563a274021ea Event NCR DAYS 2024, 2024-02-28 → 2024-02-29, Gaia, Wageningen University & Research campus, Wageningen, Netherlands Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type abstract Rights © 2024 A.M.S. Spriggs, E. Mosselman, R.M.J. Schielen, L.M. Stancanelli Files PDF Evaluating_the_impact_of_ ... _flood.pdf 272.03 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:33e4fff4-45ce-4bde-b007-563a274021ea/datastream/OBJ/view