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A global open-source database of flood-protection levees on river deltas (openDELvE)
Department of Physical Geography, Universiteit Utrecht, Postbus 80.115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the Netherlands
Jana R. Cox
Department of Physical Geography, Universiteit Utrecht, Postbus 80.115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the Netherlands
Joey O'Dell
Department of Physical Geography, Universiteit Utrecht, Postbus 80.115, 3508 TC Utrecht, the Netherlands
Douglas A. Edmonds
Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Indiana University
Bloomington, 1001 East 10th Street, Bloomington, IN 47405-1405, USA
Paolo Scussolini
Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam,
De Boelelaan 1111, 1081 HV Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Humans build levees to protect themselves against floods. We need to know where they are to correctly predict flooding, for example from sea level rise. Here we have looked through documents to find levees, and checked that they exist using satellite imagery. We developed a global levee map, available at www.opendelve.eu, and we found that 24 % of people in deltas are protected by levees.
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