Predicting flood damage probability across the conterminous United States

EL Collins, GM Sanchez, A Terando… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Floods are the leading cause of natural disaster damages in the United States, with billions
of dollars incurred every year in the form of government payouts, property damages, and …

Spatio-temporal graph convolutional networks for road network inundation status prediction during urban flooding

F Yuan, Y Xu, Q Li, A Mostafavi - Computers, Environment and Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
The objective of this study is to predict the near-future flooding status of road segments
based on their own and adjacent road segments' current status through the use of deep …

Interpretable machine learning for predicting urban flash flood hotspots using intertwined land and built-environment features

Z Liu, T Felton, A Mostafavi - Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 2024 - Elsevier
Pluvial flash floods are fast-moving hazards and causes significant disruptions in urban
areas. With the increase in heavy precipitations, the ability to proactively identify flash floods …

Critical facility accessibility and road criticality assessment considering flood-induced partial failure

U Gangwal, AR Siders, J Horney… - Sustainable and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines communities' accessibility to critical facilities such as hospitals,
emergency medical services, and emergency shelters when facing flooding. We use travel …

A Systematic Literature Review on Classification Machine Learning for Urban Flood Hazard Mapping

M El baida, M Hosni, F Boushaba… - Water Resources …, 2024 - Springer
The computational expensiveness of the hydrodynamic models and the complexity of the
rainfall-runoff transformation process presents a pressing need to shift to machine learning …

Empirical causal analysis of flood risk factors on US flood insurance payouts: Implications for solvency and risk reduction

A Bhattacharyya, M Hastak - Journal of Environmental Management, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents a regression model that quantifies the causal relationship between
flood risk factors and the flood insurance payout in the US The flood risk factors that have …

Multi-hazard exposure mapping under climate crisis using random forest algorithm for the Kalimantan Islands, Indonesia

S Heo, S Park, DK Lee - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Numerous natural disasters that threaten people's lives and property occur in Indonesia.
Climate change-induced temperature increases are expected to affect the frequency of …

Influencing factors and risk assessment of precipitation-induced flooding in Zhengzhou, China, based on random forest and XGBoost algorithms

X Liu, P Zhou, Y Lin, S Sun, H Zhang, W Xu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Due to extreme weather phenomena, precipitation-induced flooding has become a frequent,
widespread, and destructive natural disaster. Risk assessments of flooding have thus …

Satellite video remote sensing for flood model validation

C Masafu, R Williams - Water Resources Research, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Satellite‐based optical video sensors are poised as the next frontier in remote sensing.
Satellite video offers the unique advantage of capturing the transient dynamics of floods with …

Assessing the compound flood risk in coastal areas: Framework formulation and demonstration

MF Mitu, G Sofia, X Shen, EN Anagnostou - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
Storm surge and river runoff can result in compound flooding in coastal areas. The impact of
these events can be more significant than that generated by each component individually …