Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations within a Satellite-Based Framework for Mountainous and High-Precipitation Regions: Case of the 2018 Kerala Floods
Journal of Hydrologic Engineering,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
30(2)
Published: Jan. 24, 2025
Language: Английский
Land Use and Land Cover Change Dynamics in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria from 1986 to 2024
Land,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
14(4), P. 765 - 765
Published: April 3, 2025
Land
Use
and
Cover
Change
(LULCCs)
shapes
catchment
dynamics
is
a
key
driver
of
hydrological
risks,
affecting
responses
as
vegetated
land
replaced
with
urban
developments
cultivated
land.
The
resultant
risks
are
likely
to
become
more
critical
in
the
future
climate
changes
becomes
increasingly
variable.
Understanding
effects
LULCC
vital
for
developing
management
strategies
reducing
adverse
on
cycle
environment.
This
study
examines
Niger
Delta
Region
(NDR)
Nigeria
from
1986
2024.
A
supervised
maximum
likelihood
classification
was
applied
Landsat
5
TM
8
OLI
images
1986,
2015,
Five
use
classes
were
classified:
Water
bodies,
Rainforest,
Built-up,
Agriculture,
Mangrove.
overall
accuracy
Kappa
coefficients
93%
0.90,
91%
0.87,
84%
0.79
2024,
respectively.
Between
built-up
agriculture
areas
substantially
increased
by
about
8229
6727
km2
(561%
79%),
respectively,
concomitant
decrease
mangrove
vegetation
14,350
10,844
(−54%
−42%),
spatial
distribution
across
NDR
states
varied,
Delta,
Bayelsa,
Cross
River,
Rivers
States
experiencing
highest
rainforest,
losses
64%,
55,
44%,
44%
(5711
km2,
3554
2250
1297
km2),
NDR’s
mangroves
evidently
under
serious
threat.
has
important
implications,
particularly
given
role
played
forests
regulating
hazards.
dramatic
rainforest
could
exacerbate
climate-related
impacts.
provides
quantitative
information
that
be
used
support
planning
practices
well
sustainable
development.
Language: Английский
TSAE-UNet: A Novel Network for Multi-Scene and Multi-Temporal Water Body Detection Based on Spatiotemporal Feature Extraction
Remote Sensing,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
16(20), P. 3829 - 3829
Published: Oct. 15, 2024
The
application
of
remote
sensing
technology
in
water
body
detection
has
become
increasingly
widespread,
offering
significant
value
for
environmental
monitoring,
hydrological
research,
and
disaster
early
warning.
However,
the
existing
methods
face
challenges
multi-scene
multi-temporal
detection,
including
diverse
variations
shapes
sizes
that
complicate
detection;
complexity
land
cover
types,
which
easily
leads
to
false
positives
missed
detections;
high
cost
acquiring
high-resolution
images,
limiting
long-term
applications;
lack
effective
handling
data,
making
it
difficult
capture
dynamic
changes
bodies.
To
address
these
challenges,
this
study
proposes
a
novel
network
based
on
spatiotemporal
feature
extraction,
named
TSAE-UNet.
TSAE-UNet
integrates
convolutional
neural
networks
(CNN),
depthwise
separable
convolutions,
ConvLSTM,
attention
mechanisms,
significantly
improving
accuracy
robustness
by
capturing
multi-scale
features
establishing
dependencies.
Otsu
method
was
employed
quickly
process
Sentinel-1A
Sentinel-2
generating
high-quality
training
dataset.
In
first
experiment,
five
rectangular
areas
approximately
37.5
km2
each
were
selected
validate
performance
model
across
different
scenes.
second
experiment
focused
Jining
City,
Shandong
Province,
China,
analyzing
monthly
from
2020
2022
quarterly
2022.
experimental
results
demonstrate
excels
achieving
precision
0.989,
recall
0.983,
an
F1
score
0.986,
IoU
0.974,
outperforming
FCN,
PSPNet,
DeepLabV3+,
ADCNN,
MECNet.
Language: Английский