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Landslides represent a major geohazard with severe impacts on human life, infrastructure, and ecosystems, underscoring the need for accurate and timely detection approaches to support disaster risk reduction. This study proposes a modular,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ioannis Nasios

In an era of escalating climate change, urban flooding has emerged as a critical challenge for sustainable cities, threatening lives, infrastructure, and ecosystems. Traditional flood detection methods are constrained by their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Shahid Shafi Dar , Bharat Kaurav , Arnav Jain , Chandravardhan Singh Raghaw , Mohammad Zia Ur Rehman , Nagendra Kumar

Classical calibration methods in hydrology typically rely on a single cost function computed on long-term streamflow series. Even when hydrological models achieve acceptable scores in NSE and KGE, imbalances can still arise between overall…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-09-15 Ngo Nghi Truyen Huynh , Pierre-André Garambois , François Colleoni , Pierre Javelle

Flooding is a destructive and dangerous hazard and climate change appears to be increasing the frequency of catastrophic flooding events around the world. Physics-based flood models are costly to calibrate and are rarely generalizable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Chelsea Sidrane , Dylan J Fitzpatrick , Andrew Annex , Diane O'Donoghue , Yarin Gal , Piotr Biliński

Flood simulation and forecast capability have been greatly improved thanks to advances in data assimilation. Such an approach combines in-situ gauge measurements with numerical hydrodynamic models to correct the hydraulic states and reduce…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-07 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Sophie Ricci , Christophe Fatras , Andrea Piacentini , Anthéa Delmotte , Emeric Lavergne , Peter Kettig

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

The frequency of extreme flood events is increasing throughout the world. Daily, high-resolution (30m) Flood Inundation Maps (FIM) observed from space play a key role in informing mitigation and preparedness efforts to counter these extreme…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Akshay Aravamudan , Zimeena Rasheed , Xi Zhang , Kira E. Scarpignato , Efthymios I. Nikolopoulos , Witold F. Krajewski , Georgios C. Anagnostopoulos

Flooding is one of the most destructive and costly natural disasters, and climate changes would further increase risks globally. This work presents a novel multimodal machine learning approach for multi-year global flood risk prediction,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Cynthia Zeng , Dimitris Bertsimas

Flood mapping and water depth estimation from Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery are crucial for calibrating and validating hydraulic models. This study uses SAR imagery to evaluate various preprocessing (especially speckle noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jean-Paul Travert , Cédric Goeury , Sébastien Boyaval , Vito Bacchi , Fabrice Zaoui

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

As the severity and occurrence of flood events tend to intensify with climate change, the need for flood forecasting capability increases. In this regard, the Flood Detection, Alert and rapid Mapping (FloodDAM) project, funded by Space for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Thanh Huy Nguyen , Sophie Ricci , Andrea Piacentini , Christophe Fatras , Peter Kettig , Gwendoline Blanchet , Santiago Pena Luque , Simon Baillarin

Most change detection methods assume that pre-change and post-change images are acquired by the same sensor. However, in many real-life scenarios, e.g., natural disaster, it is more practical to use the latest available images before and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Sudipan Saha , Patrick Ebel , Xiao Xiang Zhu

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

The fusion of multimodal sensor streams, such as camera, lidar, and radar measurements, plays a critical role in object detection for autonomous vehicles, which base their decision making on these inputs. While existing methods exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Mario Bijelic , Tobias Gruber , Fahim Mannan , Florian Kraus , Werner Ritter , Klaus Dietmayer , Felix Heide

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 Flooded Road Environments Dataset (FRED) is, to our knowledge, the first multi-modal autonomous driving dataset specifically targeting the collection of data from scenarios involving water hazards on the road. The dataset contains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Connor Malone , Sebastien Demmel , Sebastien Glaser

The operational flood forecasting system by Google was developed to provide accurate real-time flood warnings to agencies and the public, with a focus on riverine floods in large, gauged rivers. It became operational in 2018 and has since…

Urban flooding triggered by intense rainfall is becoming increasingly frequent and widespread. While flood prediction and monitoring in high spatio-temporal resolution are desired, practical constraints in time, budget, and technology…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Zihang Ding , Amit Kumar , Imran Md. Azizul Islam , Mila Avellar Montezuma , Ruihang Zhang , Kun Zhang

We present a multi-sensor Bayesian passive microwave retrieval algorithm for flood inundation mapping at high spatial and temporal resolutions. The algorithm takes advantage of observations from multiple sensors in optical, short-infrared,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-07-12 Zeinab Takbiri , Ardeshir M Ebtehaj , Efi Foufoula-Georgiou

Flood hazard mapping is essential for disaster prevention but remains challenging in data-scarce regions, where traditional hydrodynamic models require extensive geophysical inputs. This paper introduces \textit{ZeroFlood}, a framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Hyeongkyun Kim , Orestis Oikonomou