Flood Inundation Mapping in Hydrological Systems
A special issue of Hydrology (ISSN 2306-5338). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Waters and Groundwaters".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2023) | Viewed by 13625
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hydroinformatics; data science; GIS; flood marks; machine learning
Interests: hydroinformatics; intelligent systems; scientific computing; scientific visualization; data analytics
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Dear Colleagues,
Flood inundation mapping in hydrological systems has many purposes. Scientists use the collected data to verify hydrological models and provide decision makers and residents with valuable information about potential threats. Traditional flood information gathering methods rely on manuscripts, oral testimony, surveys, and flood marks. Due to technological advances, remote sensing methods are increasingly used. Initially, the sensors were mounted on airplanes and satellites, but recently, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and surveillance cameras have become more and more popular. Social media is a source of information about natural disasters with great potential. Information about floods is made available almost in real time in the form of photos, videos, or tweets.
This diversity of data types and large amounts of data are successfully used by machine learning systems to generalize and synthesize information related to natural hazards. For these reasons, flood mapping has become an interdisciplinary issue.
This Special Issue aims to collect papers covering a wide range of the methods and techniques of flood inundation mapping, from traditional to the most advanced:
- Traditional flood mapping methods;
- Data-driven flood map generation (e.g., HAND, machine learning);
- Crowdsourced data collection;
- Mobile applications (e.g., virtual gauges);
- Satellite remote sensing (e.g., SAR);
- Drones (UAV) in flood mapping;
- Implementation of machine learning.
Dr. Robert Szczepanek
Prof. Dr. Ibrahim Demir
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- flood inundation mapping
- remote sensing
- satellites in flood mapping
- drones (UAV) in flood mapping
- crowdsourced data
- mobile applications and social media
- flood marks
- machine learning