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Flash floods are the most destructive natural hazard in Himachal Pradesh (HP), India, causing over 400 fatalities and $1.2 billion in losses in the 2023 monsoon season alone. Existing risk maps treat every pixel independently, ignoring the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Paras Sharma , Swastika Sharma

Floods are one of the most common disasters globally. Flood affects humans in many ways. Therefore, rapid assessment is needed to assess the effect of floods and to take early action to support the vulnerable community in time. Sentinel-1…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Surajit Ghosh , Arpan Dawn , Sneha Kour , Susmita Ghosh

Data-driven flood forecasting methods are useful, especially for the rivers that lack hydrological information to build physical models. Although these former methods can forecast river stages using only past water levels and rainfall data,…

Geophysics · Physics 2021-04-07 Shunya Okuno , Koji Ikeuchi , Kazuyuki Aihara

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

Information on the depth of floodwater is crucial for rapid mapping of areas affected by floods. However, previous approaches for estimating floodwater depth, including field surveys, remote sensing, and machine learning techniques, can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Temitope Akinboyewa , Huan Ning , M. Naser Lessani , Zhenlong Li

Accurate flood prediction is crucial for disaster prevention and mitigation. Hydrological data exhibit highly nonlinear temporal patterns and encompass complex spatial relationships between rainfall and flow. Existing flood prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Jun Feng , Xueyi Liu , Jiamin Lu , Pingping Shao

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

Flood mapping is crucial for assessing and mitigating flood impacts, yet traditional methods like numerical modeling and aerial photography face limitations in efficiency and reliability. To address these challenges, we propose PIFF, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 ChunLiang Wu , Tsunhua Yang , Hungying Chen

Reliable river flow forecasting is an essential component of flood risk management and early warning systems. It enables improved emergency response coordination and is critical for protecting infrastructure, communities, and ecosystems…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Gabriele Bertoli , Kai Schroeter , Rossella Arcucci , Enrica Caporali

Multi-modal salient object detection (MSOD) aims to boost saliency detection performance by integrating visible sources with depth or thermal infrared ones. Existing methods generally design different fusion schemes to handle certain issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Kunpeng Wang , Zhengzheng Tu , Chenglong Li , Cheng Zhang , Bin Luo

Floods cause serious problems around the world. Responding quickly and effectively requires accurate and timely information about the affected areas. The effective use of Remote Sensing images for accurate flood detection requires specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Vladyslav Polushko , Damjan Hatic , Ronald Rösch , Thomas März , Markus Rauhut , Andreas Weinmann

This work discusses how to choose performance measures to compare numerical simulations of a flood event with one satellite image, e.g., in a model calibration or validation procedure. A series of criterion are proposed to evaluate the…

Change detection in remote sensing imagery is essential for a variety of applications such as urban planning, disaster management, and climate research. However, existing methods for identifying semantically changed areas overlook the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Maximilian Bernhard , Niklas Strauß , Matthias Schubert

Multimodal sensor fusion is an essential capability for autonomous robots, enabling object detection and decision-making in the presence of failing or uncertain inputs. While recent fusion methods excel in normal environmental conditions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Edoardo Palladin , Roland Dietze , Praveen Narayanan , Mario Bijelic , Felix Heide

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

Existing underwater SLAM systems are difficult to work effectively in texture-sparse and geometrically degraded underwater environments, resulting in intermittent tracking and sparse mapping. Therefore, we present Water-DSLAM, a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Yaming Ou , Junfeng Fan , Chao Zhou , Pengju Zhang , Zongyuan Shen , Yichen Fu , Xiaoyan Liu , Zengguang Hou

Mapping floods using satellite data is crucial for managing and mitigating flood risks. Satellite imagery enables rapid and accurate analysis of large areas, providing critical information for emergency response and disaster management.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jonathan Giezendanner , Rohit Mukherjee , Matthew Purri , Mitchell Thomas , Max Mauerman , A. K. M. Saiful Islam , Beth Tellman

Geo-Foundation Models (GFMs), have proven effective in diverse downstream applications, including semantic segmentation, classification, and regression tasks. However, in case of flood mapping using Sen1Flood11 dataset as a downstream task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Saurabh Kaushik , Lalit Maurya , Beth Tellman

The flooding extent area in a river valley is related to river gauge observations. The higher the water elevation, the larger the flooding area. Due to synthetic aperture radar\textquoteright s (SAR) capabilities to penetrate through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Monika Gierszewska , Tomasz Berezowski

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