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Detection of Large-Scale Floods Using Google Earth Engine and Google Colab

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This paper presents an operational approach for detecting floods and establishing flood extent using Sentinel-1 radar imagery with Google Earth Engine. The methodology relies on change detection, comparing pre-event and post-event images. The change-detection method is based on the normalised difference ratio. Additionally, the HAND model is employed to delineate zones for processing only in flood-prone areas. The approach was tested and calibrated at a small scale to optimise parameters. In these calibration tests, an accuracy of 85% is achieved. The approach was then applied to the whole of the island of Madagascar after Cyclone Batsirai in 2022. The proposed method is enabled by the computing power and data availability of Google Earth Engine and Google Colab. The results show satisfactory accuracy in delineating flooded areas. The advantages of this approach are its rapidity, online availability and ability to detect floods over a wide area. The approach relying on Google Tools thus offers an effective solution for generating a large-scale synoptic picture to inform hazard management decision making. However, one of the method's drawbacks is that it depends to a large extent on frequent radar imagery being available at the time of flood events and on free access to the platform. These drawbacks will need to be taken into account in an operational scenario.
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hal-04398028 , version 1 (01-02-2024)

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Rosa Johary, Christophe Révillion, Thibault Catry, Cyprien Alexandre, Pascal Mouquet, et al.. Detection of Large-Scale Floods Using Google Earth Engine and Google Colab. Remote Sensing, 2023, 15 (22), pp.5368. ⟨10.3390/rs15225368⟩. ⟨hal-04398028⟩
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