The methodology for flood detection developed at Dartmouth Flood Observatory (DFO) (Brakenridge and others, 2007) on a global scale, was implemented at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission on an automatic operational basis. The technique is using AMSR-E passive microwave remote sensing data of the descending orbit, H polarization, 36 GHz band to detect flood events from sp...

Modern positron emission tomography (PET) detectors are typically made from 2D modular arrays of scintillation crystals. Their characteristic flood field response (or flood histogram) must be segmented in order to correctly determine the crystal of annihilation photon interaction in the system. Crystal identification information thus generated is also needed for accurate system modeling as well...

Within the global framework of the climate change, according to most Regional Climate Models the maximum peak discharges in river will increase in importance and frequency. Therefore the people will have to face worst inundation conditions. In order to protect themselves from the increasing flood risk, the communities have to draw up suitable flood protection measures. The selection and the eva...

Increasing concern about recent and potential impacts of flooding in the UK are leading to the adoption of risk-based methods for planning, appraisal, design and operation of flood defences. Probabilistic methods for assessment and design of flood defences are relatively well developed in the Netherlands because of the potentially devastating impacts of flooding. However, for reasons described ...

This paper presents a composite method for flood disaster risk assessment using a BP artificial neural network and information diffusion technique. Due to the fact that the traditional mathematical statistical model can hardly analyze flood risk issues when the sample size is small, information diffusion theory is suggested to extract as much useful information as possible from the sample and t...

Considering characteristics of high river density, special underlying surface in plain river network region, and municipal drainage system function, river network drainage unit model is proposed, which is defined as a region surrounded by main river or embankment. Flood storage variety and control projects regulation of small rivers in each unit is simulated. With drainage catchment as an objec...

predicting the hydraulic behavior of the river and flood zone determination to reduce probable damages, are among measures which in recent years has been the attention of many researchers. mazandaran province, especially the city of neka, each year is affected by the floods with different return periods; therefore, land use changes and the role of these changes were evaluated in flood zones. in...

Flood disaster is considered as a major natural hazard due to its devastatingeffects on the affected areas. Determining the flood vulnerable areas is important fordecision makers in order to perform planning and management activities. GeographicalInformation System (GIS) is integrated with Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA)used to analyze the flood vulnerable areas. The aim of this researc...

This paper presents an object-oriented toolkit for building computer models for water resource planning. The focus is on building a program for flood calculations in river systems with several reservoirs and water transfer structures. The foundation for the flood model is a framework for building hydrologic models. The general framework provides the user with tools for describing the structural...