Flood hazard mapping in Baling Kedah Malaysia / Airell Harith Azri and Saiful Shahaziq Abdul Halim

Floods are the most recurrent kind of natural disasters for it is the overflow of water that gets to cover areas usually perceived as dry. In order to increase the community's resilience against future flood disasters, this research aim to create a flood hazard mapping of Baling, Kedah, Malaysia. This study's primary goal is to identify flood risk factors and investigate the areas of Baling Kedah that are more likely to experience a flood disaster. The specific objectives of the study are to identify which part of Baling has the higher risk of flood disaster and further to produce a flood hazard mapping in Baling Kedah Malaysia. The study was carried out in stages by compiling data from a variety of open sources, including ArcMap, NASA Power Dave, the USGS, ESRI Sentinel-2 Land Cover Explorer, and precipitation, land use, and boundary data, in various formats to perform data processing.