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We present a decision support system for flood early warning and disaster management. It includes the models for data-driven meteorological predictions, for simulation of atmospheric pressure, wind, long sea waves and seiches; a module for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2014-01-31 V. V. Krzhizhanovskaya , N. B. Melnikova , A. M. Chirkin , S. V. Ivanov , A. V. Boukhanovsky , P. M. A. Sloot

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 remains a major global challenge, worsened by climate change and urbanization, demanding advanced solutions for effective disaster management. While traditional 2D flood mapping techniques provide limited insights, 3D flood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Wenfeng Jia , Bin Liang , Yuxi Liu , Muhammad Arif Khan , Lihong Zheng

Satellite remote sensing presents a cost-effective solution for synoptic flood monitoring, and satellite-derived flood maps provide a computationally efficient alternative to numerical flood inundation models traditionally used. While…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-09-05 Antara Dasgupta , Lasse Hybbeneth , Björn Waske

With the deterioration of climate, the phenomenon of rain-induced flooding has become frequent. To mitigate its impact, recent works adopt convolutional neural network or its variants to predict the floods. However, these methods directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Feifei Wang , Yong Wang , Bing Li , Qidong Huang , Shaoqing Chen

High-resolution satellite imagery available immediately after disaster events is crucial for response planning as it facilitates broad situational awareness of critical infrastructure status such as building damage, flooding, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Danil Kuzin , Olga Isupova , Brooke D. Simmons , Steven Reece

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

Background: Floods are the most common natural disaster in the world, affecting the lives of hundreds of millions. Flood forecasting is therefore a vitally important endeavor, typically achieved using physical water flow simulations, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Niv Giladi , Zvika Ben-Haim , Sella Nevo , Yossi Matias , Daniel Soudry

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 forecasts are crucial for effective individual and governmental protective action. The vast majority of flood-related casualties occur in developing countries, where providing spatially accurate forecasts is a challenge due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Zvika Ben-Haim , Vladimir Anisimov , Aaron Yonas , Varun Gulshan , Yusef Shafi , Stephan Hoyer , Sella Nevo

Floods are among the most common and deadly natural disasters in the world, and flood warning systems have been shown to be effective in reducing harm. Yet the majority of the world's vulnerable population does not have access to reliable…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Sella Nevo , Gal Elidan , Avinatan Hassidim , Guy Shalev , Oren Gilon , Grey Nearing , Yossi Matias

In this paper, we discuss and review how combined multi-view imagery from satellite to street-level can benefit scene analysis. Numerous works exist that merge information from remote sensing and images acquired from the ground for tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-29 Sébastien Lefèvre , Devis Tuia , Jan Dirk Wegner , Timothée Produit , Ahmed Samy Nassar

Identification of regions affected by floods is a crucial piece of information required for better planning and management of post-disaster relief and rescue efforts. Traditionally, remote sensing images are analysed to identify the extent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sushant Lenka , Pratyush Kerhalkar , Pranav Shetty , Harsh Gupta , Bhavam Vidyarthi , Ujjwal Verma

High-resolution rainfall observations are crucial for weather forecasting, water management, and hazard mitigation. Traditional operational measurements are often biased and low-resolution, limiting their ability to capture local rainfall.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Rafael Pablos Sarabia , Joachim Nyborg , Morten Birk , Ira Assent

Continuous monitoring for road flooding could be achieved through onboard computing of satellite imagery to generate near real-time insights made available to generate dynamic information for maps used for navigation. Given the existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Vishesh Vatsal , Gouranga Nandi , Primo Manilal

Floods are among the most frequent and catastrophic natural disasters and affect millions of people worldwide. It is important to create accurate flood maps to plan (offline) and conduct (real-time) flood mitigation and flood rescue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-15 P. Chaudhary , S. D'Aronco , J. P. Leitao , K. Schindler , J. D. Wegner

Detecting roadway segments inundated due to floodwater has important applications for vehicle routing and traffic management decisions. This paper proposes a set of algorithms to automatically detect floodwater that may be present in an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Cem Sazara , Mecit Cetin , Khan M. Iftekharuddin

The recent advances in machine learning and the availability of free and open big Earth data (e.g., Sentinel missions), which cover large areas with high spatial and temporal resolution, have enabled many agriculture monitoring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 George Choumos , Alkiviadis Koukos , Vasileios Sitokonstantinou , Charalampos Kontoes

This study introduces a novel dataset for segmenting flooded areas in satellite images. After reviewing 77 existing benchmarks utilizing satellite imagery, we identified a shortage of suitable datasets for this specific task. To fill this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Youngsun Jang , Dongyoun Kim , Chulwoo Pack , Kwanghee Won

With the development of mobile social networks, more and more crowdsourced data are generated on the Web or collected from real-world sensing. The fragment, heterogeneous, and noisy nature of online/offline crowdsourced data, however, makes…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Bin Guo , Huihui Chen , Yan Liu , Chao Chen , Qi Han , Zhiwen Yu