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Viktoriya Tsyganskaya, Sandro Martinis and Philip Marzahn
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is particularly suitable for large-scale mapping of inundations, as this tool allows data acquisition regardless of illumination and weather conditions. Precise information about the flood extent is an essential foundation ...
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Kevin J. Wienhold, Dongfeng Li, Wenzhao Li and Zheng N. Fang
The identification of flood hazards during emerging public safety crises such as hurricanes or flash floods is an invaluable tool for first responders and managers yet remains out of reach in any comprehensive sense when using traditional remote-sensing ...
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Thibault Laigre, Yann Balouin, Deborah Villarroel-Lamb, Alexandre Nicolae Lerma, Nico Valentini, Manuel Moisan and Ywenn De La Torre
Increasing evidence suggests that coastal ecosystems provide significant protection against coastal flooding. However, these ecosystems are highly impacted by local human activities and climate change, which has resulted in reducing their extent and can ...
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Kaveh Ghahraman, Balázs Nagy and Fatemeh Nooshin Nokhandan
We utilized the random forest (RF) machine learning algorithm, along with nine topographical/morphological factors, namely aspect, slope, geomorphons, plan curvature, profile curvature, terrain roughness index, surface texture, topographic wetness index ...
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Swarupa Paudel, Neekita Joshi and Ajay Kalra
Climate change is considered one of the biggest challenges around the globe as it has been causing alterations in hydrological extremes. Climate change and variability have an impact on future streamflow conditions, water quality, and ecological balance,...
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Moleni Tu?uholoaki, Antonio Espejo, Moritz Wandres, Awnesh Singh, Herve Damlamian and Zulfikar Begg
The South Pacific region is characterised by steep shelves and fringing coral reef islands. The lack of wide continental shelves that can dissipate waves makes Pacific Island countries vulnerable to large waves that can enhance extreme total water levels...
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Kimberly M. Meitzen, Clinton R. Robertson, Jennifer L. Jensen, Daniel J. Daugherty, Thomas B. Hardy and Kevin B. Mayes
We developed a floodplain inundation model to extract specific flood extent and depth parameters and combined these with vegetation land cover and historic flow data to quantify spatial habitat suitability and temporal hydrologic metrics that support All...
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Christos Makris, Zisis Mallios, Yannis Androulidakis and Yannis Krestenitis
Storm surges due to severe weather events threaten low-land littoral areas by increasing the risk of seawater inundation of coastal floodplains. In this paper, we present recent developments of a numerical modelling system for coastal inundation induced ...
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Kuo-Hsin Tseng, Tsun-Hua Yang, Pei-Yuan Chen, Hwa Chien, Chi-Farn Chen and Yi-Chan Hung
Changes in the global climate have induced densified rainfall and caused natural hazards across the world in recent years. Formed by a central mountain range and a corridor of alluvial plains to the west, Taiwan is at risk of flood hazards owing to its l...
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Yanna Zheng, Yifan Zhou, Ruijia Jin, Yingna Mu, Ming He and Lingxiao Zhao
This study presents novel analytical solutions for analyzing wave dissipation effect and bottom flow field characteristics of permeable submerged horizontal plates through physical model trials. The experimental results show that a solid submerged horizo...
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