Sensing Technology for Flood Monitoring and Forecasting

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Hydrology".

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Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
Interests: hydrological modeling; flood forecasting, regionalization; uncertainty; impact of climate change and land use change; evapotranspiration
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State Key Laboratory of Water Resources and Hydropower Engineering Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Interests: image recognition; radar technology; hydrology monitoring; hydrology simulation; artificial intelligence; remote sensing
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State Key Laboratory of Hydrology-Water Resources and Hydraulics Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 210098, China
Interests: remote sensing and GIS applications; hydrological modeling; statistical downscaling; climate change and land use/land cover change impact on water resources
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Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, with the rapid development of information technology, more and more emerging technologies have been applied in water resource management, such as remote sensing (RS), Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), intelligent image recognition, etc. These technologies can be directly applied to the monitoring of hydrological variables and can also be indirectly applied to hydrological modeling, providing technical support for flood forecasting and warning in a basin. RS technology can be applied to rainfall observation to obtain the continuous spatial distribution of rainfall, such as TRMM and GPM satellites, and it can also be used to monitor the changing of soil moisture, glaciers, lake water body, and flood inundation, which greatly enrich the traditional means of hydrological observation. IoT technology provides new technical means for data collection and transmission, which overcomes the difficulty of data acquisition in some remote areas. Image recognition technologies are also widely used in water level and flow velocity monitoring, such as particle image velocimetry (PIV) and space–time image velocimetry (STIV), which provide new technical means for quickly obtaining water level and flow data. These sensing technologies greatly enrich the ways for flood forecasting and early warning and also provide strong technical support for improving the accuracy of flood forecasting.

Therefore, this Special Issue is aimed at representing the latest advances on current efforts to aid advancing flood monitoring and management through new sensing technologies. We welcome contributions in all fields of remote sensing, flood modeling, flood monitoring, including new systems, signal processing algorithms, as well as new applications. Those include but are not limited to:

RS and GIS in flood forecasting

Flood monitoring and mapping

Flood inundation modelling

Multiple satellite precipitation estimation

The IoT applied in flood monitoring

Spatial data downscaling and assimilation

Image recognition technologies

Particle image velocimetry (PIV)

Space–time image velocimetry (STIV)

AI in flooding forecasting and warning

You may choose our Joint Special Issue in Sensors.

Prof. Dr. Chong-Yu Xu
Prof. Dr. Hua Chen
Prof. Dr. Zengxin Zhang
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Flood Hazard Assessment for the Tori Levee Breach of the Indus River Basin, Pakistan
by Babar Naeem, Muhammad Azmat, Hui Tao, Shakil Ahmad, Muhammad Umar Khattak, Sajjad Haider, Sajjad Ahmad, Zarif Khero and Christopher R. Goodell
Water 2021, 13(5), 604; https://doi.org/10.3390/w13050604 - 25 Feb 2021
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Levee breaches are some of the most common hazards in the world and cause the loss of lives, livelihoods, and property destruction. During the 2010 flood in Pakistan, the most devastating breach occurred at Tori Levee on the right bank of the Indus [...] Read more.
Levee breaches are some of the most common hazards in the world and cause the loss of lives, livelihoods, and property destruction. During the 2010 flood in Pakistan, the most devastating breach occurred at Tori Levee on the right bank of the Indus River, downstream of the Guddu Barrage, which caused residual floods in northern Sindh and the adjoining regions of the Balochistan province. In this study, 2D unsteady flow modeling performed for Tori Levee breach computed residual flood inundation by coupling a HEC-RAS (Hydrological Engineering Centre—River Analysis System) 2D hydraulic model with remote sensing and Geographic Information System techniques. The model performance was judged by comparing the observed and simulated water levels (stage) during peak flow at seven different gauging stations located within the Indus River reach and daily flood extents and multi-day composites. The quantitative values for the calibration and validation of the HEC-RAS model showed good performance with a range of difference from 0.13 to −0.54 m between the simulated and observed water levels (stage), 84% match for the maximum flood inundation area, and 73.2% for the measure of fit. The overall averages of these values for the daily flood comparison were 57.12 and 75%, respectively. Furthermore, the simulated maximum flow passed through the Tori Levee breach, which was found to be 4994.47 cumecs (about 15% of peak flow) with a head water stage of 71.56 m. By using the simulated flows through the Tori Levee breach, the flood risk maps for the 2010 flood identified hazard zones according to the flood characteristics (depth, velocity, depth times velocity, arrival time, and duration). All the flood risk maps concluded the fact that the active flood plain was uninhabitable under flood conditions. Full article
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