Geomatics Natural Hazards and Risk,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
13(1), P. 949 - 974
Published: April 11, 2022
Flood
is
a
common
global
natural
hazard,
and
detailed
flood
susceptibility
maps
for
specific
watersheds
are
important
management
measures.
We
compute
the
map
Kaiser
watershed
in
Iran
using
machine
learning
models
such
as
support
vector
(SVM),
Particle
swarm
optimization
(PSO),
genetic
algorithm
(GA)
along
with
ensembles
(PSO-GA
SVM-GA).
The
application
of
assessment
mapping
analyzed,
future
research
suggestions
presented.
model
was
constructed
based
on
fifteen
causatives:
slope,
slope
aspect,
elevation,
plan
curvature,
land
use,
cover,
normalize
differences
vegetation
index
(NDVI),
convergence
(CI),
topographical
wetness
(TWI),
topographic
positioning
Index
(TPI),
drainage
density
(DD),
distance
to
stream,
terrain
ruggedness
(TRI),
surface
texture
(TST),
geology
stream
power
(SPI)
inventory
data
which
later
divided
by
70%
training
30%
validated
model.
output
evaluated
through
sensitivity,
specificity,
accuracy,
precision,
Cohen
Kappa,
F-score,
receiver
operating
curve
(ROC).
evaluation
method
shows
robust
results
from
(0.839),
particle
(0.851),
(0.874),
SVM-GA
(0.886),
PSO-GA
(0.902).
Compared
have
done
some
methods
commonly
used
this
assessment.
A
high-quality,
informative
database
essential
classification
types
that
very
helpful
improve
performances.
performance
ensemble
better
than
model,
yielding
high
degree
accuracy
(AUC-0.902%).
Our
approach,
therefore,
provides
novel
studies
other
watersheds.
Journal of Hydrology,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
594, P. 125734 - 125734
Published: Nov. 8, 2020
Identifying
floods
and
producing
flood
susceptibility
maps
are
crucial
steps
for
decision-makers
to
prevent
manage
disasters.
Plenty
of
studies
have
used
machine
learning
models
produce
reliable
maps.
Nevertheless,
most
research
ignores
the
importance
developing
appropriate
feature
engineering
methods.
In
this
study,
we
propose
a
local
spatial
sequential
long
short-term
memory
neural
network
(LSS-LSTM)
prediction
in
Shangyou
County,
China.
The
three
main
contributions
study
summarized
below.
First
all,
it
is
new
perspective
use
deep
technique
LSTM
prediction.
Second,
integrate
an
method
with
predict
susceptibility.
Third,
implement
two
optimization
techniques
data
augmentation
batch
normalization
further
improve
performance
proposed
method.
LSS-LSTM
can
not
only
capture
attribution
information
conditioning
factors
data,
but
also
has
powerful
modelling
capabilities
deal
relationship
floods.
experimental
results
demonstrate
that
achieves
satisfactory
(93.75%
0.965)
terms
accuracy
area
under
receiver
operating
characteristic
(ROC)
curve.
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2020,
Volume and Issue:
12(21), P. 3568 - 3568
Published: Oct. 31, 2020
Flash
flooding
is
considered
one
of
the
most
dynamic
natural
disasters
for
which
measures
need
to
be
taken
minimize
economic
damages,
adverse
effects,
and
consequences
by
mapping
flood
susceptibility.
Identifying
areas
prone
flash
a
crucial
step
in
hazard
management.
In
present
study,
Kalvan
watershed
Markazi
Province,
Iran,
was
chosen
evaluate
susceptibility
modeling.
Thus,
detect
flood-prone
zones
this
study
area,
five
machine
learning
(ML)
algorithms
were
tested.
These
included
boosted
regression
tree
(BRT),
random
forest
(RF),
parallel
(PRF),
regularized
(RRF),
extremely
randomized
trees
(ERT).
Fifteen
climatic
geo-environmental
variables
used
as
inputs
models.
The
results
showed
that
ERT
optimal
model
with
an
area
under
curve
(AUC)
value
0.82.
rest
models’
AUC
values,
i.e.,
RRF,
PRF,
RF,
BRT,
0.80,
0.79,
0.78,
0.75,
respectively.
model,
areal
coverage
very
high
moderate
susceptible
582.56
km2
(28.33%),
portion
associated
low
zones.
It
concluded
topographical
hydrological
parameters,
e.g.,
altitude,
slope,
rainfall,
river’s
distance,
effective
parameters.
will
play
vital
role
planning
implementation
mitigation
strategies
region.
Geoscience Frontiers,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
12(6), P. 101224 - 101224
Published: May 5, 2021
Bangladesh
experiences
frequent
hydro-climatic
disasters
such
as
flooding.
These
are
believed
to
be
associated
with
land
use
changes
and
climate
variability.
However,
identifying
the
factors
that
lead
flooding
is
challenging.
This
study
mapped
flood
susceptibility
in
northeast
region
of
using
Bayesian
regularization
back
propagation
(BRBP)
neural
network,
classification
regression
trees
(CART),
a
statistical
model
(STM)
evidence
belief
function
(EBF),
their
ensemble
models
(EMs)
for
three
time
periods
(2000,
2014,
2017).
The
accuracy
machine
learning
algorithms
(MLAs),
STM,
EMs
were
assessed
by
considering
area
under
curve—receiver
operating
characteristic
(AUC-ROC).
Evaluation
levels
aforementioned
revealed
EM4
(BRBP-CART-EBF)
outperformed
(AUC
>
90%)
standalone
other
analyzed.
Furthermore,
this
investigated
relationships
among
cover
change
(LCC),
population
growth
(PG),
road
density
(RD),
relative
(RCF)
areas
period
between
2000
2017.
results
showed
very
high
increased
19.72%
2017,
while
PG
rate
51.68%
over
same
period.
Pearson
correlation
coefficient
RCF
RD
was
calculated
0.496.
findings
highlight
significant
association
floods
causative
factors.
could
valuable
policymakers
resource
managers
they
can
improvements
management
reduction
damage
risks.
Water,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
13(2), P. 241 - 241
Published: Jan. 19, 2021
Recurrent
floods
are
one
of
the
major
global
threats
among
people,
particularly
in
developing
countries
like
India,
as
this
nation
has
a
tropical
monsoon
type
climate.
Therefore,
flood
susceptibility
(FS)
mapping
is
indeed
necessary
to
overcome
natural
hazard
phenomena.
With
mind,
we
evaluated
prediction
performance
FS
Koiya
River
basin,
Eastern
India.
The
present
research
work
was
done
through
preparation
sophisticated
inventory
map;
eight
conditioning
variables
were
selected
based
on
topography
and
hydro-climatological
condition,
by
applying
novel
ensemble
approach
hyperpipes
(HP)
support
vector
regression
(SVR)
machine
learning
(ML)
algorithms.
HP-SVR
also
compared
with
stand-alone
ML
algorithms
HP
SVR.
In
relative
importance
variables,
distance
river
most
dominant
factor
for
occurrences
followed
rainfall,
land
use
cover
(LULC),
normalized
difference
vegetation
index
(NDVI).
validation
accuracy
assessment
maps
five
popular
statistical
methods.
result
evaluation
showed
that
optimal
model
(AUC
=
0.915,
sensitivity
0.932,
specificity
0.902,
0.928
Kappa
0.835)
assessment,
0.885)
SVR
0.871).
Journal of Environmental Management,
Journal Year:
2021,
Volume and Issue:
298, P. 113551 - 113551
Published: Aug. 17, 2021
The
predicts
current
and
future
flood
risk
in
the
Kalvan
watershed
of
northwestern
Markazi
Province,
Iran.
To
do
this,
512
non-flood
locations
were
identified
mapped.
Twenty
flood-risk
factors
selected
to
model
using
several
machine
learning
techniques:
conditional
inference
random
forest
(CIRF),
gradient
boosting
(GBM),
extreme
(XGB)
their
ensembles.
investigate
(year
2050)
effects
changing
climates
land
use
on
risk,
a
general
circulation
(GCM)
with
representative
concentration
pathways
(RCPs)
2.6
8.5
scenarios
by
2050
was
tested
for
impacts
8
precipitation
variables.
In
addition,
uses
prepared
CA-Markov
model.
performances
models
validated
Receiver
Operating
Characteristic-Area
Under
Curve
(ROC-AUC)
other
statistical
analyses.
AUC
value
ROC
curve
indicates
that
ensemble
had
highest
predictive
power
(AUC
=
0.83)
followed
GBM
0.80),
XGB
0.79),
CIRF
0.78).
results
climate
changes
flood-prone
areas
showed
classified
as
having
moderate
very
high
will
increase
2050.
Due
occurring
climates,
area
increased
predictions
from
all
four
models.
areal
proportion
classes
zones
under
RCP
scenario
have
changed
following
proportions
distribution
Very
Low
−12.04
%,
−8.56
Moderate
+1.56
High
+11.55
+7.49
%.
has
caused
present
percentages:
−14.48
−6.35
+4.54
+10.61
+5.67
mapping
can
aid
planners
hazard
managers
efforts
mitigate
impacts.