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Accurate flood detection from visual data is a critical step toward improving disaster response and risk assessment, yet datasets for flood segmentation remain scarce due to the challenges of collecting and annotating large-scale imagery.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Georgios Simantiris , Konstantinos Bacharidis , Apostolos Papanikolaou , Petros Giannakakis , Costas Panagiotakis

Flooding is one of the most destructive natural hazards worldwide, posing serious risks to ecosystems, infrastructure, and human livelihoods. This study combines Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery with environmental and hydrological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Edwin Oluoch Awino , Denis Machanda

Compound flooding, where the combination or successive occurrence of two or more flood drivers leads to an extreme impact, can greatly exacerbate the adverse consequences associated with flooding in coastal regions. This paper reviews the…

This paper introduces a novel automatic coverage path planning algorithm for bathymetry surveying with unmanned surface vehicles. The detection range of the mapping sensor employed - a multibeam echo sounder - is heavily influenced by local…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Maider Larrazabal , Tong Yang , Izaro Goienetxea , Jaime Valls Miro

Distributing government relief efforts after a flood is challenging. In India, the crops are widely affected by floods; therefore, making rapid and accurate crop damage assessment is crucial for effective post-disaster agricultural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Sanidhya Ghosal , Anurag Sharma , Sushil Ghildiyal , Mukesh Saini

Driven by rapid climate change, the frequency and intensity of flood events are increasing. Electro-Optical (EO) satellite imagery is commonly utilized for rapid response. However, its utilities in flood situations are hampered by issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Minseok Seo , Youngtack Oh , Doyi Kim , Dongmin Kang , Yeji Choi

Floods are one of nature's most catastrophic calamities which cause irreversible and immense damage to human life, agriculture, infrastructure and socio-economic system. Several studies on flood catastrophe management and flood forecasting…

Pakistan experienced an unusually severe flood season between June and December 2025, with cascading impacts on population, infrastructure, and agriculture. Existing operational flood products (e.g., UNOSAT) provide valuable episode-level…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Usman Nazir , Disha Gomathinayagam , Muhammad Kamran , Sara Khalid

The temporal and spatial analysis of river dynamics is a key factor for studying and understanding human impacts on floodplains. To assess the changes taking place, it is necessary to have high-resolution images with a large spatial…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-26 Pierre Audisio , Barbara Belletti , Nelly Pustelnik

The objective of this study is to create and test a hybrid deep learning model, FastGRNN-FCN (Fast, Accurate, Stable and Tiny Gated Recurrent Neural Network-Fully Convolutional Network), for urban flood prediction and situation awareness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Shangjia Dong , Tianbo Yu , Hamed Farahmand , Ali Mostafavi

In this paper, we address two critical challenges in the domain of flood detection: the computational expense of large-scale time series change detection and the lack of interpretable decision-making processes on explainable AI (XAI). To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Ziyang Zhang , Plamen Angelov , Dmitry Kangin , Nicolas Longépé

An agent-based model (ABM) for simulating flood-pedestrian interaction is augmented to particularly explore more realistic responses of evacuating pedestrians during flooding. Pedestrian agents within the ABM follow navigation rules of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-06-16 Mohammad Shirvani , Georges Kesserwani , Paul Richmond

To address the mounting destruction caused by floods in climate-vulnerable regions, we propose Street to Cloud, a machine learning pipeline for incorporating crowdsourced ground truth data into the segmentation of satellite imagery of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Veda Sunkara , Matthew Purri , Bertrand Le Saux , Jennifer Adams

As Android malware is growing and evolving, deep learning has been introduced into malware detection, resulting in great effectiveness. Recent work is considering hybrid models and multi-view learning. However, they use only simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yafei Wu , Jian Shi , Peicheng Wang , Dongrui Zeng , Cong Sun

Floods are the most common form of natural disaster and accurate flood forecasting is essential for early warning systems. Previous work has shown that machine learning (ML) models are a promising way to improve flood predictions when…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Emil Ryd , Grey Nearing

Natural disasters, such as floods, tornadoes, or wildfires, are increasingly pervasive as the Earth undergoes global warming. It is difficult to predict when and where an incident will occur, so timely emergency response is critical to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Ethan Weber , Dim P. Papadopoulos , Agata Lapedriza , Ferda Ofli , Muhammad Imran , Antonio Torralba

Urban flood emergency response increasingly relies on infrastructure impact forecasts rather than hazard variables alone. However, real-time predictions are unreliable due to biased rainfall, incomplete flood knowledge, and sparse…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Lei Xie , Peihui Lin , Naiyu Wang , Paolo Gardoni

In our project we have designed an Android application to obtain mobility data of the citizens in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. Our implementation synchronously obtains in background on the one hand, periodic location updates and, on…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2015-03-12 Sergi Casanova Fouce , Silvia Puglisi , Monica Aguilar Igartua

A conceptual area is divided into units or barangays, each was allowed to evolve under a physical constraint. A risk assessment method was then used to identify the flood risk in each community using the following risk factors: the area's…

Global floods, exacerbated by climate change, pose severe threats to human life, infrastructure, and the environment. Recent catastrophic events in Pakistan and New Zealand underscore the urgent need for precise flood mapping to guide…