Opportunities for crowdsourcing in urban flood monitoring

AM Helmrich, BL Ruddell, K Bessem… - … modelling & software, 2021 - Elsevier
Flooding is the most common natural hazard, leading to property damage, injuries, and
death. Despite the potential for major consequences, urban flooding remains difficult to …

A Review of Non-Contact Water Level Measurement Based on Computer Vision and Radar Technology

Z Wu, Y Huang, K Huang, K Yan, H Chen - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
As pioneering non-contact water level measurement technologies, both computer vision and
radar have effectively addressed challenges posed by traditional water level sensors in …

[HTML][HTML] M3C2-EP: Pushing the limits of 3D topographic point cloud change detection by error propagation

L Winiwarter, K Anders, B Höfle - ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The analysis of topographic time series is often based on bitemporal change detection and
quantification. For 3D point clouds, acquired using laser scanning or photogrammetry …

Using deep learning for automatic water stage measurements

A Eltner, PO Bressan, T Akiyama… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Image‐based gauging stations can allow for significant densification of monitoring networks
of river water stages. However, thus far, most camera gauges do not provide the robustness …

[HTML][HTML] Flow velocity and discharge measurement in rivers using terrestrial and unmanned-aerial-vehicle imagery

A Eltner, H Sardemann… - Hydrology and Earth …, 2020 - hess.copernicus.org
An automatic workflow to measure surface flow velocities in rivers is introduced, including a
Python tool. The method is based on particle-tracking velocimetry (PTV) and comprises an …

ATLANTIS: A benchmark for semantic segmentation of waterbody images

SMH Erfani, Z Wu, X Wu, S Wang… - Environmental Modelling & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Vision-based semantic segmentation of waterbodies and nearby related objects provides
important information for managing water resources and handling flooding emergency …

A water level measurement approach based on YOLOv5s

G Qiao, M Yang, H Wang - Sensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Existing water gauge reading approaches based on image analysis have problems such as
poor scene adaptability and weak robustness. Here, we proposed a novel water level …

Using noncontact measurement of water surface dynamics to estimate river discharge

G Dolcetti, B Hortobágyi, M Perks… - Water Resources …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Estimating river discharge requires simultaneous measurement of velocity and flow depth.
While surface velocities are relatively easy to measure using noncontact techniques, depth …

Deep learning for automated river-level monitoring through river-camera images: an approach based on water segmentation and transfer learning

R Vandaele, SL Dance, V Ojha - Hydrology and Earth System …, 2021 - hess.copernicus.org
River-level estimation is a critical task required for the understanding of flood events and is
often complicated by the scarcity of available data. Recent studies have proposed to take …

Multi-Epoch and Multi-Imagery (MEMI) photogrammetric workflow for enhanced change detection using time-lapse cameras

X Blanch, A Eltner, M Guinau, A Abellan - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
Photogrammetric models have become a standard tool for the study of surfaces, structures
and natural elements. As an alternative to Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) …