FloodWatch: Devising an Autonomous Cyber Physical System for Real-Time Flood in an Operational Framework 291 views

Flooding has devastating impacts in Southeast Asia, in part due to the lack of appropriate infrastructure. As a part of my involvement in the FloodWatch research group, I am devising an autonomous cyber physical system for real-time flood intelligence that can be leveraged by citizens in a progressive webapp. FloodWatch is a smart city service centered around the development of cyber physical system infrastructure for disaster intelligence and forecasting. The service provides a frontend progressive web application (PWA), live sensor readings through LoRAWAN router technology, and predictive insights on flood susceptibility. To produce insights on susceptibility, I am working on several machine learning pipelines to ensure accuracy, explainability and corroboration. The current approach combines an existing hydrological model called HEC-RAS with a customized Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to produce geographical flood inundation that is then interpreted and overlaid on the map of Vietnam using a region tileset automation script. Additionally, I am devising a corroboration mechanism for crowdsourced flood reports by using LiDAR water level interpretation, computer vision for flood label detection of live camera feeds.

BS (Bachelor of Science)

English

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2023-12-17