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Flood Mapping & Inundation Tools

Turning model output or satellite imagery into a defensible flood extent is its own discipline. Indexed here: inundation mapping utilities (including height-above-nearest-drainage methods), post-processors for hydraulic model results, and remote-sensing flood detection tools.

CaMa-Flood-GPU

Open Source

GPU reimplementation of the CaMa-Flood global river routing model — continental flood simulation on PyTorch/Triton.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveFlood RoutingFlood Mapping

Crayfish

Open Source

QGIS plugin for exploring mesh model results — animate TUFLOW, Telemac and HEC-RAS 2D outputs in the GIS.

Geospatial & Hydro-GISStableQGIS HydrologyFlood Mapping

Deltares' operational forecasting platform — the shell running national flood-forecast centres worldwide.

Data, Monitoring & ForecastingActiveStreamflow ForecastingFlood Mapping

Rapid flood modelling in the browser — steady-state inundation estimates in seconds, anywhere on earth.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveFlood Mapping2D Hydraulic Modelling

Jacobs' 1D/2D river and floodplain suite — a UK practice staple with a genuinely useful free tier.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveRiver Modelling2D Hydraulic Modelling

Planetary-scale geospatial analysis in the cloud — the data catalogue and compute behind modern water remote sensing.

Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveGoogle Earth EngineRemote Sensing

HEC-RAS

FreeVerified

The world's most used hydraulic model: free 1D/2D river analysis, sediment, water quality and flood mapping.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveRiver Modelling2D Hydraulic Modelling

Iber

Free

Free Spanish 2D hydraulic model — flow, turbulence, sediment and habitat modules behind a full GUI.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActive2D Hydraulic ModellingFlood Mapping

LISFLOOD-FP

Open Source

The Bristol raster flood model behind global flood maps — open source with GPU-accelerated solvers.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveFlood Mapping2D Hydraulic Modelling

QGIS

Open SourceVerified

The free, open-source GIS that has become the default spatial platform for water engineers worldwide.

Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveQGIS HydrologyTerrain Analysis

SFINCS

Open Source

Deltares' reduced-complexity compound flood model — coastal, fluvial and pluvial drivers in one fast solver.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveCoastal ModellingFlood Mapping

TUFLOW

Commercial

Benchmark-setting commercial 1D/2D flood engine with GPU acceleration — dominant in AU/UK flood studies.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActive2D Hydraulic ModellingFlood Mapping

geemap

Open Source

Python + Google Earth Engine without the pain — interactive mapping and analysis of petabyte-scale water data.

Geospatial & Hydro-GISActiveGoogle Earth EngineRemote Sensing

rashdf

Open Source

Read HEC-RAS HDF5 geometry and results into GeoPandas/xarray — built for FEMA's flood-risk data pipelines.

Hydraulics & River SystemsActiveHEC-RAS AutomationPython Hydrology