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Water events are the most frequent and costliest climate disasters around the world. In the U.S., an estimated 127 million people who live in coastal areas are at risk of substantial home damage from hurricanes or flooding. In flood…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Bahareh Alizadeh , Diya Li , Zhe Zhang , Amir H. Behzadan

Accurate monsoon rainfall prediction is vital for India's agriculture, water management, and climate risk planning, yet remains challenging due to sparse ground observations and complex regional variability. We present a multimodal deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Swaib Ilias Mazumder , Manish Kumar , Aparajita Khan

Floods are among the most damaging weather-related hazards, and in 2024, the warmest year on record, extreme flood events affected communities across five continents. Earth observation (EO) satellites provide critical, frequent coverage for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Mirela G. Tulbure , Julio Caineta , Mark Broich , Mollie D. Gaines , Philippe Rufin , Leon-Friedrich Thomas , Hamed Alemohammad , Jan Hemmerling , Patrick Hostert

FloodNet is a high-resolution image dataset acquired by a small UAV platform, DJI Mavic Pro quadcopters, after Hurricane Harvey. The dataset presents a unique challenge of advancing the damage assessment process for post-disaster scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Sahil Khose , Abhiraj Tiwari , Ankita Ghosh

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

Flood prediction is critical for emergency planning and response to mitigate human and economic losses. Traditional physics-based hydrodynamic models generate high-resolution flood maps using numerical methods requiring fine-grid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Sun Han Neo , Sachith Seneviratne , Herath Mudiyanselage Viraj Vidura Herath , Abhishek Saha , Sanka Rasnayaka , Lucy Amanda Marshall

The objective of this study is to create and test a hybrid deep learning model, FastGRNN-FCN (Fast, Accurate, Stable and Tiny Gated Recurrent Neural Network-Fully Convolutional Network), for urban flood prediction and situation awareness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-09 Shangjia Dong , Tianbo Yu , Hamed Farahmand , Ali Mostafavi

This study addresses the vital issue of real-time flood detection and management. It innovatively combines advanced deep learning models with Large language models (LLM), enhancing flood monitoring and response capabilities. This approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Pranath Reddy Kumbam , Kshitij Maruti Vejre

Urban flood risk emerges from complex and nonlinear interactions among multiple features related to flood hazard, flood exposure, and social and physical vulnerabilities, along with the complex spatial flood dependence relationships.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Kai Yin , Junwei Ma , Ali Mostafavi

With Deep Learning Image Classification becoming more powerful each year, it is apparent that its introduction to disaster response will increase the efficiency that responders can work with. Using several Neural Network Models, including…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-13 Jianyu Mao , Kiana Harris , Nae-Rong Chang , Caleb Pennell , Yiming Ren

Landslides are among the most common natural disasters globally, posing significant threats to human society. Deep learning (DL) has proven to be an effective method for rapidly generating landslide inventories in large-scale disaster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Guanting Liu , Yi Wang , Xi Chen , Baoyu Du , Penglei Li , Yuan Wu , Zhice Fang

With changing climatic conditions, we are already seeing an increase in extreme weather events and their secondary consequences, including landslides. Landslides threaten infrastructure, including roads, railways, buildings, and human life.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Alexandra Jarna Ganerød , Gabriele Franch , Erin Lindsay , Martina Calovi

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…

Simulating and predicting the water level/stage in river systems is essential for flood warnings, hydraulic operations, and flood mitigations. Physics-based detailed hydrological and hydraulic computational tools, such as HEC-RAS, MIKE, and…

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

Semantic segmentation of land cover classes is fundamental for agricultural and economic development work, from sustainable forestry to urban planning, yet existing training datasets have significant limitations. To generate an open and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-21 Yoni Nachmany , Hamed Alemohammad

Deep learning models for flood and wildfire segmentation and object detection enable precise, real-time disaster localization when deployed on embedded drone platforms. However, in natural disaster management, the lack of transparency in…

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

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

In recent years, landslide disasters have reported frequently due to the extreme weather events of droughts, floods , storms, or the consequence of human activities such as deforestation, excessive exploitation of natural resources.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Lam Pham , Cam Le , Hieu Tang , Khang Truong , Truong Nguyen , Jasmin Lampert , Alexander Schindler , Martin Boyer , Son Phan