Abstract

Keeping London Dry: Leveraging Enterprise GIS for flood defence asset management

The Thames Estuary Asset Management 2100 (TEAM2100) programme is the UK Environment Agency's largest flood-risk management programme, spanning the tidal Thames Estuary from greater London to the North Sea, and managing 4,000+ assets which include 350km of walls and embankments, hundreds of gates and pumping stations and the iconic Thames Barrier. With a geospatial strategy focussed on integration, innovation and an enterprise approach, our GIS platform provides a programme-wide, single source of geospatial data and functionality that has become the foundation of our asset management approach. In this presentation, we will demonstrate how we utilise a variety of web and mobile GIS applications to collect and consume data in innovative and user-friendly ways. We will discuss how our approach drives intelligence-led asset management and enables more informed decision-making whilst creating efficiencies across the programme. We will provide an overview of our 'Estuary Eye' application, which provides all TEAM2100 members online access to 8+TB of geospatial data ranging from basic asset information to 3D models, 360 imagery and georeferenced UAV video. We will also demonstrate how we utilise StoryMaps to geo-enable our asset management plans, previously static PDF documents, leading to increased client engagement and satisfaction.