Towards a continuous inland excess water flood monitoring system based on remote sensing data

Van Leeuwen Boudewijn and Tobak Zalán and Kovács Ferenc and Sipos György: Towards a continuous inland excess water flood monitoring system based on remote sensing data. In: Journal of environmental geography, (10) 3-4. pp. 9-15. (2017)

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Abstract

Inland excess water (IEW) is a type of flood where large flat inland areas are covered with water during a period of several weeks to months. The monitoring of these floods is needed to understand the extent and direction of development of the inundations and to mitigate their damage to the agricultural sector and build up infrastructure. Since IEW affects large areas, remote sensing data and methods are promising technologies to map these floods. This study presents the first results of a system that can monitor inland excess water over a large area with sufficient detail at a high interval and in a timely matter. The methodology is developed in such a way that only freely available satellite imagery is required and a map with known water bodies is needed to train the method to identify inundations. Minimal human interference is needed to generate the IEW maps. We will present a method describing three parallel workflows, each generating separate maps. The maps are combined to one weekly IEW map. At this moment, the method is capable of generating IEW maps for a region of over 8000 km2 , but it will be extended to cover the whole Great Hungarian Plain, and in the future, it can be extended to any area where a training water map can be created.

Item Type: Article
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of environmental geography
Date: 2017
Volume: 10
Number: 3-4
ISSN: 2060-467X
Page Range: pp. 9-15
Language: English
Place of Publication: Szeged
Related URLs: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/54753/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Vízgazdálkodás, Árvíz - kutatás, Belvíz - számítás, Hidrológia
Additional Information: Bibliogr.: 15. p. ; ill. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Subjects: 01. Natural sciences
01. Natural sciences > 01.05. Earth and related environmental sciences
Date Deposited: 2018. Jul. 25. 10:21
Last Modified: 2022. Jun. 28. 08:13
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/54902

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