The accuracy of digital elevation models (DEMs) is crucial for properly estimating flood inundation area. DEM pixel size is especially important when generating flood inundation maps of small streams with a channel width of less than 50 m. In Korea, DEMs with large spatial resolutions of 30 m have been widely applied to generate flood inundation maps, even for small streams. Additionally, when making river master plans, field observations of stream cross-sections, as well as reference points in the middle of the river, have not previously been used to enhance the DEM. In this study, it was graphically demonstrated that high-resolution DEMs can increase the accuracy of flood inundation mapping, especially for small streams. Also, a methodology was proposed to modify the existing low-resolution DEMs by adding additional survey reference points, including river cross-sections, and interpolating them into a high spatial resolution DEM using the inverse distance weighting method. For verification purposes, the modified DEM was applied to Han stream on Jeju Island. The modified DEM showed much better accuracy when describing morphological features near the stream. Moreover, the flood inundation maps were formulated with the original 30 m pixel DEM and the modified 0.1 m pixel DEM using HEC-RAS modeling of the actual flood event of Typhoon Nari, and then compared with the flood history map of Nari. The results clearly indicated that the modified DEM generated a similar inundation area, but a very poor estimate of inundation area was derived from the original low-resolution DEM.

도시하천유역에서 집중호우에 따른 제방 범람과 이에 따른 침수 피해규모를 해석하기 위하여 우리나라의 대표적 도시하천인 중랑천의 홍수 및 제방붕괴 특성을 시 공간적으로 다양한 조건에서 연구하였으며 실용적인 GIS 기법의 적용방법에 대하여 비교 분석하였다. 이를 위하여 '98년 실제 홍수상황에 대하여 적용분석하였으며, 100년, 200년, PMP의 빈도별 강우 조건에서 홍수량을 각각 산정하였다. 또한, 제방붕괴 조건별 하천의 부정류 해석 및 제내지의 홍수범람