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Nuno Eduardo Simões, Susana Ochoa-Rodríguez, Li-Pen Wang, Rui Daniel Pina, Alfeu Sá Marques, Christian Onof and João P. Leitão
It is a common practice to assign the return period of a given storm event to the urban pluvial flood event that such storm generates. However, this approach may be inappropriate as rainfall events with the same return period can produce different urban ...
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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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Mengjun Ku, Hao Jiang, Kai Jia, Xuemei Dai, Jianhui Xu, Dan Li, Chongyang Wang and Boxiong Qin
South China is dominated by mountainous agriculture and croplands that are at risk of flood disasters, posing a great threat to food security. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has the advantage of being all-weather, with the ability to penetrate clouds and...
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Ali Aldrees, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, Salisu Dan?azumi and Sani Isah Abba
Flooding is a major environmental problem facing urban cities, causing varying degrees of damage to properties and disruption to socio-economic activities. Nigeria is the most populous African country and Kano metropolis is the second largest urban cente...
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Stelian Dimitrov, Bilyana Borisova, Ivo Ihtimanski, Kalina Radeva, Martin Iliev, Lidiya Semerdzhieva and Stefan Petrov
This research seeks to develop and test a rapid mapping approach using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and terrestrial laser scanning to provide precise, high-resolution spatial data for urban areas right after disasters. This mapping aims to support eff...
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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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Christos Mattas, Dimitris Karpouzos, Pantazis Georgiou and Theodoros Tsapanos
Dams are expensive technical constructions that ensure food production, sustain farmers? income, and cover a large percentage of urban water supply demands. However, the threat of a dam break flood, which can be extremely dangerous for the local society,...
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Juan Carlos Villagran de Leon
This communication informs on how the UN-SPIDER program of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs contributes to the efforts of the United Nations? system to mobilize international cooperation to mitigate the risks related to natural hazards, ...
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Manuel Nhangumbe, Andrea Nascetti and Yifang Ban
Floods are one of the most frequent natural disasters worldwide. Although the vulnerability varies from region to region, all countries are susceptible to flooding. Mozambique was hit by several cyclones in the last few decades, and in 2019, after cyclon...
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Yi Lin Tew, Mou Leong Tan, Liew Juneng, Kwok Pan Chun, Mohamad Hafiz bin Hassan, Sazali bin Osman, Narimah Samat, Chun Kiat Chang and Muhammad Humayun Kabir
The 2021?2022 flood is one of the most serious flood events in Malaysian history, with approximately 70,000 victims evacuated daily, 54 killed and total losses up to MYR 6.1 billion. From this devastating event, we realized the lack of extreme precipitat...
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Mark Ziegelaar and Yuriy Kuleshov
Floods are the most common and costliest natural disaster in Australia. However, the Flood Risk Assessments (FRAs) employed to manage them are hazard-focused and tend to overlook exposure and vulnerability. This leaves potential for Australian FRAs to ma...
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Kartika Indah Sari,Darlina Tanjung
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District Medan Belawan often subjected to tidal flooding. This is due to because the region is located on the coast of the beach and the surface of the ground is lower than the surface of the ocean. Some of the factors that cause the occurrence of tidal ...
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Kartika Indah Sari,Darlina Tanjung
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District Medan Belawan often subjected to tidal flooding. This is due to because the region is located on the coast of the beach and the surface of the ground is lower than the surface of the ocean. Some of the factors that cause the occurrence of tidal ...
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Antonio Annis and Fernando Nardi
Hydrologic/hydraulic models for flood risk assessment, forecasting and hindcasting have been greatly supported by the rising availability of increasingly accurate and high-resolution Earth Observation (EO) data. EO-based topographic and hydrologic open g...
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Lariyah Mohd Sidek, Lloyd Hock Chye Chua, Aqilah Syasya Mohd Azizi, Hidayah Basri, Aminah Shakirah Jaafar and Wei Chek Moon
Coupled with climate change, the urbanization-driven increase in the frequency and intensity of floods can be seen in both developing and developed countries, and Malaysia is no exemption. As part of flood hazard mitigation, this study aimed to simulate ...
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Carolin Klonner, Maximilian Hartmann, Rebecca Dischl, Lily Djami, Liana Anderson, Martin Raifer, Fernanda Lima-Silva, Lívia Castro Degrossi, Alexander Zipf and João Porto de Albuquerque
A worldwide increase in the number of people and areas affected by disasters has led to more and more approaches that focus on the integration of local knowledge into disaster risk reduction processes. The research at hand shows a method for formalizing ...
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Giuseppe Barbaro, Marcelo Gomes Miguez, Matheus Martins de Sousa, Anna Beatriz Ribeiro da Cruz Franco, Paula Morais Canedo de Magalhães, Giandomenico Foti, Matheus Rocha Valadão and Irene Occhiuto
Urbanization increases imperviousness and reduces infiltration, retention, and evapotranspiration, frequently aggravating urban flooding due to greater runoff and higher and faster discharge peaks. Effective strategies to mitigate flood risks require a b...
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Hamid Mehmood, Crystal Conway and Duminda Perera
The Earth Observation (EO) domain can provide valuable information products that can significantly reduce the cost of mapping flood extent and improve the accuracy of mapping and monitoring systems. In this study, Landsat 5, 7, and 8 were utilized to map...
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Rifa Alayani,Sugianto Sugianto,Hairul Basri
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This study aims to assess Flood susceptibility and flood hazard levels and obtain the distribution of hazard levels and flood hazards in the Woyla watershed, Aceh Province. This research design generally uses a descriptive survey method and divide into s...
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Mihretab G. Tedla, Younghyun Cho and Kyungsoo Jun
In this study, we conducted flood mapping of a hypothetical dam break by coupling the Hydrologic Engineering Center?s Hydrologic Modeling System (HEC-HMS) and River Analysis System (HEC-RAS) models under different return periods of flood inflow. This stu...
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