Geology Ecology and Landscapes,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
unknown, P. 1 - 11
Published: April 24, 2023
The
populous
city
of
Palembang
is
one
the
most
flood-prone
cities
in
Indonesian
region.
After
some
decades,
magnitude,
duration,
and
frequency
floods
have
increased.
Thus,
this
study
aimed
to
develop
flood
risk
shelter
suitability
maps
using
Analytic
Hierarchy
Process
(AHP)
Geographical
Information
System
(GIS)
integration.
Several
flood-related
factors
that
used
such
as
elevation,
population,
slope,
land
cover,
distance
from
a
river,
drainage
density,
road,
settlement,
soil
type.
Results
found
map
area
was
divided
into
three
classes;
30.3%
at
high
risk,
while
60.5%
moderate
9.2%
low
risk.
Moreover,
assessments
revealed
approximately
4.1%
shelters
were
highly
suitable,
19.4%
moderately
lowly
16.1%
very
suitable.
highest
areas
predominantly
on
northwest
north
sides
which
higher
elevation
(ranging
13–41
m)
farther
river.
They
could
be
assumed
good
choices
for
shelters.
Scientific Reports,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(1)
Published: Jan. 4, 2024
Abstract
Droughts
pose
a
severe
environmental
risk
in
countries
that
rely
heavily
on
agriculture,
resulting
heightened
levels
of
concern
regarding
food
security
and
livelihood
enhancement.
Bangladesh
is
highly
susceptible
to
hazards,
with
droughts
further
exacerbating
the
precarious
situation
for
its
170
million
inhabitants.
Therefore,
we
are
endeavouring
highlight
identification
relative
importance
climatic
attributes
estimation
seasonal
intensity
frequency
Bangladesh.
With
period
forty
years
(1981–2020)
weather
data,
sophisticated
machine
learning
(ML)
methods
were
employed
classify
35
agroclimatic
regions
into
dry
or
wet
conditions
using
nine
parameters,
as
determined
by
Standardized
Precipitation
Evapotranspiration
Index
(SPEI).
Out
24
ML
algorithms,
four
best
methods,
ranger,
bagEarth,
support
vector
machine,
random
forest
(RF)
have
been
identified
prediction
multi-scale
drought
indices.
The
RF
classifier
Boruta
algorithms
shows
water
balance,
precipitation,
maximum
minimum
temperature
higher
influence
occurrence
across
trend
spatio-temporal
analysis
indicates,
has
decreased
over
time,
but
return
time
increased.
There
was
significant
variation
changing
spatial
nature
intensity.
Spatially,
shifted
from
northern
central
southern
zones
Bangladesh,
which
had
an
adverse
impact
crop
production
rural
urban
households.
So,
this
precise
study
important
implications
understanding
how
mitigate
impacts.
Additionally,
emphasizes
need
better
collaboration
between
relevant
stakeholders,
such
policymakers,
researchers,
communities,
local
actors,
develop
effective
adaptation
strategies
increase
monitoring
meticulous
management
Natural Hazards,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
120(8), P. 7787 - 7816
Published: March 21, 2024
Abstract
This
study
explores
and
compares
the
predictive
capabilities
of
various
ensemble
algorithms,
including
SVM,
KNN,
RF,
XGBoost,
ANN,
DT,
LR,
for
assessing
flood
susceptibility
(FS)
in
Houz
plain
Moroccan
High
Atlas.
The
inventory
map
past
flooding
was
prepared
using
binary
data
from
2012
events,
where
“1”
indicates
a
flood-prone
area
“0”
non-flood-prone
or
extremely
low
area,
with
762
indicating
areas.
15
different
categorical
factors
were
determined
selected
based
on
importance
multicollinearity
tests,
slope,
elevation,
Normalized
Difference
Vegetation
Index,
Terrain
Ruggedness
Stream
Power
Land
Use
Cover,
curvature
plane,
profile,
aspect,
flow
accumulation,
Topographic
Position
soil
type,
Hydrologic
Soil
Group,
distance
river
rainfall.
Predicted
FS
maps
Tensift
watershed
show
that,
only
10.75%
mean
surface
predicted
as
very
high
risk,
19%
38%
estimated
respectively.
Similarly,
Haouz
plain,
exhibited
an
average
21.76%
very-high-risk
zones,
18.88%
18.18%
low-
very-low-risk
zones
applied
algorithms
met
validation
standards,
under
curve
0.93
0.91
learning
stages,
Model
performance
analysis
identified
XGBoost
model
best
algorithm
zone
mapping.
provides
effective
decision-support
tools
land-use
planning
risk
reduction,
across
globe
at
semi-arid
regions.
Water,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
14(8), P. 1230 - 1230
Published: April 11, 2022
This
review
focuses
on
the
use
of
Interpretable
Artificial
Intelligence
(IAI)
and
eXplainable
(XAI)
models
for
data
imputations
numerical
or
categorical
hydroclimatic
predictions
from
nonlinearly
combined
multidimensional
predictors.
The
AI
considered
in
this
paper
involve
Extreme
Gradient
Boosting,
Light
Categorical
Extremely
Randomized
Trees,
Random
Forest.
These
can
transform
into
XAI
when
they
are
coupled
with
explanatory
methods
such
as
Shapley
additive
explanations
local
interpretable
model-agnostic
explanations.
highlights
that
IAI
capable
unveiling
rationale
behind
while
discovering
new
knowledge
justifying
AI-based
results,
which
critical
enhanced
accountability
AI-driven
predictions.
also
elaborates
importance
domain
interventional
modeling,
potential
advantages
disadvantages
hybrid
non-IAI
predictive
unequivocal
balanced
decisions,
choice
performance
versus
physics-based
modeling.
concludes
a
proposed
framework
to
enhance
interpretability
explainability
applications.