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Climate change has caused reductions in river runoffs and aquifer recharge resulting in an increasingly unsustainable crop water demand from reduced freshwater availability. Achieving food security while deploying water in a sustainable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Chitra Agastya , Sirak Ghebremusse , Ian Anderson , Colorado Reed , Hossein Vahabi , Alberto Todeschini

In recent years, the wide availability of high-resolution radar satellite images has enabled the remote monitoring of wetland surface areas. Machine learning models have achieved state-of-the-art results in segmenting wetlands from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Ioannis Iakovidis , Zahra Kalantari , Amir Hossein Payberah , Fernando Jaramillo , Francisco Pena Escobar

The intricacy of rainy image contents often leads cutting-edge deraining models to image degradation including remnant rain, wrongly-removed details, and distorted appearance. Such degradation is further exacerbated when applying the models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-15 Yiyang Shen , Mingqiang Wei , Sen Deng , Wenhan Yang , Yongzhen Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang , Meng Wang , Jing Qin

Due to climate and land-use change, natural disasters such as flooding have been increasing in recent years. Timely and reliable flood detection and mapping can help emergency response and disaster management. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Ritu Yadav , Andrea Nascetti , Yifang Ban

The use of deep learning for water extraction requires precise pixel-level labels. However, it is very difficult to label high-resolution remote sensing images at the pixel level. Therefore, we study how to utilize point labels to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-12 Ming Lu , Leyuan Fang , Muxing Li , Bob Zhang , Yi Zhang , Pedram Ghamisi

Floods cause extensive global damage annually, making effective monitoring essential. While satellite observations have proven invaluable for flood detection and tracking, comprehensive global flood datasets spanning extended time periods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Amit Misra , Kevin White , Simone Fobi Nsutezo , William Straka , Juan Lavista

Flood prediction is critical for emergency planning and response to mitigate human and economic losses. Traditional physics-based hydrodynamic models generate high-resolution flood maps using numerical methods requiring fine-grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sun Han Neo , Sachith Seneviratne , Herath Mudiyanselage Viraj Vidura Herath , Abhishek Saha , Sanka Rasnayaka , Lucy Amanda Marshall

Satellite missions provide valuable optical data for monitoring rivers at diverse spatial and temporal scales. However, accessibility remains a challenge: high-resolution imagery is ideal for fine-grained monitoring but is typically scarce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-14 Rangel Daroya , Subhransu Maji

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

Remote sensing of the Earth's surface water is critical in a wide range of environmental studies, from evaluating the societal impacts of seasonal droughts and floods to the large-scale implications of climate change. Consequently, a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Joachim Moortgat , Ziwei Li , Michael Durand , Ian Howat , Bidhyananda Yadav , Chunli Dai

This paper addresses the problem of floods classification and floods aftermath detection utilizing both social media and satellite imagery. Automatic detection of disasters such as floods is still a very challenging task. The focus lies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Kashif Ahmad , Konstantin Pogorelov , Michael Riegler , Olga Ostroukhova , Paal Halvorsen , Nicola Conci , Rozenn Dahyot

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

Accurate and timely mapping of flood extent from high-resolution satellite imagery plays a crucial role in disaster management such as damage assessment and relief activities. However, current state-of-the-art solutions are based on U-Net,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Mirza Tanzim Sami , Da Yan , Saugat Adhikari , Lyuheng Yuan , Jiao Han , Zhe Jiang , Jalal Khalil , Yang Zhou

The detection of flooded areas using high-resolution synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery is a critical task with applications in crisis and disaster management, as well as environmental resource planning. However, the complex nature of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Tamer Saleh , Xingxing Weng , Shimaa Holail , Chen Hao , Gui-Song Xia

Flooding is the world's most costly type of natural disaster in terms of both economic losses and human causalities. A first and essential procedure towards flood monitoring is based on identifying the area most vulnerable to flooding,…

Accurate flood forecasting remains a challenge for water-resource management, as it demands modeling of local, time-varying runoff drivers (e.g., rainfall-induced peaks, baseflow trends) and complex spatial interactions across a river…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Aishwarya Sarkar , Autrin Hakimi , Xiaoqiong Chen , Hai Huang , Chaoqun Lu , Ibrahim Demir , Ali Jannesari

Identifying flood affected areas in remote sensing data is a critical problem in earth observation to analyze flood impact and drive responses. While a number of methods have been proposed in the literature, there are two main limitations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 Xavier Bou , Thibaud Ehret , Rafael Grompone von Gioi , Jeremy Anger

We propose a framework that estimates inundation depth (maximum water level) and debris-flow-induced topographic deformation from remote sensing imagery by integrating deep learning and numerical simulation. A water and debris flow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Naoto Yokoya , Kazuki Yamanoi , Wei He , Gerald Baier , Bruno Adriano , Hiroyuki Miura , Satoru Oishi

In this work, we present the application of convolutional neural networks for segmenting water bodies in satellite images. We first use a variant of the U-Net model to segment rivers and lakes from very high-resolution images from Peru. To…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-03 Jessenia Gonzalez , Debjani Bhowmick , Cesar Beltran , Kris Sankaran , Yoshua Bengio

Post-disaster situational awareness relies heavily on understanding both the extent and the volume of floodwaters. While 2D semantic segmentation provides accurate flood masking, it lacks the vertical dimension required to assess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Nhut Le , Ehsan Karimi , Maryam Rahnemoonfar