Kelowna Capital News – April 10, 2018
The Okanagan Basin Water Board will enlist a radar technology tool to help valley communities plan and prepare for future flood events.
The technology is called LiDAR and it creates digital three-dimensional aerial imaging data to accurately map the landscape.
“The LiDAR will show where water is likely to flow. It will include modelling of how much water can be expected and help determine vulnerable locations,” said Anna Warwick Sears, executive director of the OBWB.
She said the LiDAR data will also be valuable to community planners and decision-makers in local government and First Nation communities where building should and should not be allowed from flood protection and prevention perspectives.