Flood affects many things including monitoring and measuring instruments and associated telemetry systems

This paper outlines planning for monitoring instruments before during and after flood events and outlines the need to consider many factors when a flood event

This paper overviews the experience of the Royal Irrigation Department (RID) of Thailand during major flood events where monitoring instrument operation is critical and where some equipment worked and some equipment failed and why

The paper then outlines design considerations to reduce the vulnerability of some installations considerations of different installations.