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Viktoriya Tsyganskaya, Sandro Martinis and Philip Marzahn
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) is particularly suitable for large-scale mapping of inundations, as this tool allows data acquisition regardless of illumination and weather conditions. Precise information about the flood extent is an essential foundation ...
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Ali Aldrees, Abdulrasheed Mohammed, Salisu Dan?azumi and Sani Isah Abba
Flooding is a major environmental problem facing urban cities, causing varying degrees of damage to properties and disruption to socio-economic activities. Nigeria is the most populous African country and Kano metropolis is the second largest urban cente...
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Mengjun Ku, Hao Jiang, Kai Jia, Xuemei Dai, Jianhui Xu, Dan Li, Chongyang Wang and Boxiong Qin
South China is dominated by mountainous agriculture and croplands that are at risk of flood disasters, posing a great threat to food security. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has the advantage of being all-weather, with the ability to penetrate clouds and...
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Rafiu Oyelakin, Wenyu Yang and Peter Krebs
Fitting probability distribution functions to observed data is the standard way to compute future design floods, but may not accurately reflect the projected future pattern of extreme events related to climate change. In applying the latest coupled model...
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Christos Mattas, Dimitris Karpouzos, Pantazis Georgiou and Theodoros Tsapanos
Dams are expensive technical constructions that ensure food production, sustain farmers? income, and cover a large percentage of urban water supply demands. However, the threat of a dam break flood, which can be extremely dangerous for the local society,...
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Kevin J. Wienhold, Dongfeng Li, Wenzhao Li and Zheng N. Fang
The identification of flood hazards during emerging public safety crises such as hurricanes or flash floods is an invaluable tool for first responders and managers yet remains out of reach in any comprehensive sense when using traditional remote-sensing ...
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Manuel Nhangumbe, Andrea Nascetti and Yifang Ban
Floods are one of the most frequent natural disasters worldwide. Although the vulnerability varies from region to region, all countries are susceptible to flooding. Mozambique was hit by several cyclones in the last few decades, and in 2019, after cyclon...
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Gaurav Parajuli, Shankar Neupane, Sandeep Kunwar, Ramesh Adhikari and Tri Dev Acharya
Flood is one of the most frequently occurring and devastating disasters in Nepal. Several locations in Nepal are at high risk of flood, which requires proper guidance on early warning and safe evacuation of people to emergency locations through optimal r...
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Nikolaos Xafoulis, Yiannis Kontos, Evangelia Farsirotou, Spyridon Kotsopoulos, Konstantinos Perifanos, Nikolaos Alamanis, Dimitrios Dedousis and Konstantinos Katsifarakis
Floods are lethal and destructive natural hazards. The Mediterranean, including Greece, has recently experienced many flood events (e.g., Medicanes Zorbas and Ianos), while climate change results in more frequent and intense flood events. Accurate flood ...
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Matthew Kelly, Imogen Schwarz, Mark Ziegelaar, Andrew B. Watkins and Yuriy Kuleshov
Floods are the most common and costliest natural disaster in Australia. Australian flood risk assessments (FRAs) are mostly conducted on relatively small scales using modelling outputs. The aim of this study was to develop a novel approach of index-based...
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