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Flood inundation forecast provides critical information for emergency planning before and during flood events. Real time flood inundation forecast tools are still lacking. High-resolution hydrodynamic modeling has become more accessible in…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-01 Alexander Y. Sun , Zhi Li , Wonhyun Lee , Qixing Huang , Bridget R. Scanlon , Clint Dawson

Earth System Models (ESM) are our main tool for projecting the impacts of climate change. However, running these models at sufficient resolution for local-scale risk-assessments is not computationally feasible. Deep learning-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Paula Harder , Luca Schmidt , Francis Pelletier , Nicole Ludwig , Matthew Chantry , Christian Lessig , Alex Hernandez-Garcia , David Rolnick

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

Floods can be very destructive causing heavy damage to life, property, and livelihoods. Global climate change and the consequent sea-level rise have increased the occurrence of extreme weather events, resulting in elevated and frequent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Jimeng Shi , Vitalii Stebliankin , Zhaonan Wang , Shaowen Wang , Giri Narasimhan

Building-level exposure data are critical to natural hazard risk modeling, yet most global inventories describe where buildings are located rather than what they are made of. Roof material is a critical but poorly documented attribute for…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Benjamin Tarver , Noelle Law , Sasha Getz , Yuki Miura

The proliferation of Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) has significantly advanced zero-shot forecasting, enabling predictions for unseen time series without task-specific fine-tuning. Extensive research has confirmed that no single TSFM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Hao-Nan Shi , Ting-Ji Huang , Lu Han , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

Visual geo-localization for drones faces critical degradation under weather perturbations, \eg, rain and fog, where existing methods struggle with two inherent limitations: 1) Heavy reliance on limited weather categories that constrain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Jiahao Wen , Hang Yu , Zhedong Zheng

Forecasting urban phenomena such as housing prices and public health indicators requires the effective integration of various geospatial data. Current methods primarily utilize task-specific models, while recent foundation models for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Dominik J. Mühlematter , Lin Che , Ye Hong , Martin Raubal , Nina Wiedemann

Floods are among the most destructive natural disasters, which are highly complex to model. The research on the advancement of flood prediction models contributed to risk reduction, policy suggestion, minimization of the loss of human life,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Amir Mosavi , Pinar Ozturk , Kwok-wing Chau

Hydrodynamic flood modeling improves hydrologic and hydraulic prediction of storm events. However, the computationally intensive numerical solutions required for high-resolution hydrodynamics have historically prevented their implementation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Francisco Haces-Garcia , Natalya Maslennikova , Craig L Glennie , Hanadi S Rifai , Vedhus Hoskere , Nima Ekhtari

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

Successful flood recovery and evacuation require access to reliable flood depth information. Most existing flood mapping tools do not provide real-time flood maps of inundated streets in and around residential areas. In this paper, a deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Bahareh Alizadeh , Amir H. Behzadan

Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs) have made remarkable progress on various multimodal tasks, such as image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual question answering, and visual grounding. However, most methods rely on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Zhihang Zhong , Xue Yang

Recent deep learning approaches for river discharge forecasting have improved the accuracy and efficiency in flood forecasting, enabling more reliable early warning systems for risk management. Nevertheless, existing deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Mohamad Hakam Shams Eddin , Yikui Zhang , Stefan Kollet , Juergen Gall

Global floods, exacerbated by climate change, pose severe threats to human life, infrastructure, and the environment. Recent catastrophic events in Pakistan and New Zealand underscore the urgent need for precise flood mapping to guide…

Flood extent mapping plays a crucial role in disaster management and national water forecasting. Unfortunately, traditional classification methods are often hampered by the existence of noise, obstacles and heterogeneity in spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Miao Xie , Zhe Jiang , Arpan Man Sainju

Study Region: Goslar and G\"ottingen, Lower Saxony, Germany. Study Focus: In July 2017, the cities of Goslar and G\"ottingen experienced severe flood events characterized by short warning time of only 20 minutes, resulting in extensive…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Sakshi Dhankhar , Stefan Wittek , Hamidreza Eivazi , Andreas Rausch

Flash flood warnings are largely reactive, providing limited advance notice for evacuation planning and resource prepositioning. This study presents and validates an anticipatory, parametric framework that converts landscape vulnerability…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiangpeng Li , Junwei Ma , Samuel D Brody , Ali Mostafavi

Artificial intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced Earth sciences, yet its full potential in to comprehensively modeling Earth's complex dynamics remains unrealized. Geoscience foundation models (GFMs) emerge as a paradigm-shifting…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Hao Zhang , Jin-Jian Xu , Hong-Wei Cui , Lin Li , Yaowen Yang , Chao-Sheng Tang , Niklas Boers

The next generation of Mars rotorcrafts requires on-board autonomous hazard avoidance landing. To this end, this work proposes a system that performs continuous multi-resolution height map reconstruction and safe landing spot detection.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Pedro F. Proença , Jeff Delaune , Roland Brockers