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Water level monitoring is critical for flood management, water resource allocation, and ecological assessment, yet traditional methods remain costly and limited in coverage. This work explores radar-based sensing as a low-cost alternative…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Anna Zavei-Boroda , J. Toby Minear , Kyle Harlow , Dusty Woods , Christoffer Heckman

Dam reservoirs play an important role in meeting sustainable development goals and global climate targets. However, particularly for small dam reservoirs, there is a lack of consistent data on their geographical location. To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Arnout van Soesbergen , Zedong Chu , Miaojing Shi , Mark Mulligan

Accurate water level sensing is essential for flood monitoring, agricultural irrigation, and water resource optimization. Traditional methods require dedicated sensor deployments, leading to high installation costs, vulnerability to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Zhongqin Wang , J. Andrew Zhang , Kai Wu , Y. Jay Guo

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry allows for the creation of orthophotos and digital surface models (DSMs) of a terrain. However, DSMs of water bodies mapped with this technique reveal water surface distortions, preventing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Radosław Szostak , Marcin Pietroń , Przemysław Wachniew , Mirosław Zimnoch , Paweł Ćwiąkała

Accurate and timely water level monitoring is critical for flood prevention, environmental management, and emerging smart infrastructure systems. Traditional water sensing methods often rely on dedicated sensors, which can be costly to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Khawaja Fahad Masood , Kai Wu , Zhongqin Wang , J. Andrew Zhang , Shu-Lin Chen , Y. Jay Guo

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

Urban flooding is becoming a common and devastating hazard to cause life loss and economic damage. Monitoring and understanding urban flooding in the local scale is a challenging task due to the complicated urban landscape, intricate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-02 Ruo-Qian Wang , Yangmin Ding

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

The present study was aimed to create new methods for extraction and analysis of land elevation contour lines, automatic extraction of water bodies (river basins and lakes), from the digital elevation models (DEM) of a test area. And…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-07 B. G. Kodge , P. S. Hiremath

Groundwater is the largest storage of freshwater resources, which serves as the major inventory for most of the human consumption through agriculture, industrial, and domestic water supply. In the fields of hydrological, some researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Pejman Zarafshan , Saman Javadi , Abbas Roozbahani , Seyed Mehdi Hashemy , Payam Zarafshan , Hamed Etezadi

With the rapid evolution of computer vision, vision-based methodologies for water level and river surface velocity estimation have reached significant maturity. Compared to traditional sensing, these techniques offer superior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 ZhiXin Sun

Development of the new methods of surface water observation is crucial in the perspective of increasingly frequent extreme hydrological events related to global warming and increasing demand for water. Orthophotos and digital surface models…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Radosław Szostak , Marcin Pietroń , Mirosław Zimnoch , Przemysław Wachniew , Paweł Ćwiąkała , Edyta Puniach

Accurate detection of inundated water extents during flooding events is crucial in emergency response decisions and aids in recovery efforts. Satellite Remote Sensing data provides a global framework for detecting flooding extents.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Muthukumaran Ramasubramanian , Iksha Gurung , Shubhankar Gahlot , Ronny Hänsch , Andrew L. Molthan , Manil Maskey

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

Surface water dynamics play a critical role in Earth's climate system, influencing ecosystems, agriculture, disaster resilience, and sustainable development. Yet monitoring rivers and surface water at fine spatial and temporal scales…

Estimation of the level set of a function (i.e., regions where the function exceeds some value) is an important problem with applications in digital elevation mapping, medical imaging, astronomy, etc. In many applications, the function of…

Applications · Statistics 2018-03-06 Kalyani Krishnamurthy , Waheed U. Bajwa , Rebecca Willett

Flooding is one of the most dangerous weather events today. Between $2015-2019$, on average, flooding has caused more than $130$ deaths every year in the USA alone. The devastating nature of flood necessitates the continuous monitoring of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Pratool Bharti , Priyanjani Chandra , Michael. E. Papka , David Koop

This paper presents a forecasting model designed using WSNs (Wireless Sensor Networks) to predict flood in rivers using simple and fast calculations to provide real-time results and save the lives of people who may be affected by the flood.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Victor Seal , Arnab Raha , Shovan Maity , Souvik Kr Mitra , Amitava Mukherjee , Mrinal Kanti Naskar

The increasing prevalence of marine pollution during the past few decades motivated recent research to help ease the situation. Typical water quality assessment requires continuous monitoring of water and sediments at remote locations with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Xiaoting Xu , Tin Lai , Sayka Jahan , Farnaz Farid

Accurate flood detection in near real time via high resolution, high latency satellite imagery is essential to prevent loss of lives by providing quick and actionable information. Instruments and sensors useful for flood detection are only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Peri Akiva , Matthew Purri , Kristin Dana , Beth Tellman , Tyler Anderson
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