Automated Detection of Hazards

Countless phenomena such as floods, fires, and algae blooms routinely impact ecosystems, economies, and human safety. Your challenge is to use satellite data to create a machine learning model that detects a specific phenomenon and build an interface that not only displays the detected phenomenon, but also layers it alongside ancillary data to help researchers and decision-makers better understand its impacts and scope.

Rescuer

Summary

We are team Rescuer from Rajshahi division of Bangladesh. Worldwide, flooding is the leading cause of losses from natural hazards That’s why our main objective is to make a web interface by using data from satellite data of NASA other various sources to detect flood zone area .Especially, GRACE RLO6 v2 dataset of NASA have been used. Machine learning, specifically deep learning has been used to train a model which will predict flood in a specific region.

How We Addressed This Challenge

Worldwide, flooding is the leading cause of losses from natural hazards and is responsible for a greater number of damaging events than any other type of natural event. At least one third of all losses due to nature’s forces can be attributed to flooding. . In the past ten years losses amounting to more than 250 billion dollars have had to be born by societies all over the world to compensate for the consequences of floods. Currently , there are growing need to forecast at any location where there is a risk of flood damage.Due to lack of early real time flood detection and tracing natural phenomena like flood occur devastating damage in whole world. Another challenge is forecasting an extreme high danger level flood, in particular one that is more extreme extreme than those contained in the historical record and now judged more likely as a consequence of climate and/or land-use change. This raises issues related to the nature of extreme storms (of convective, orographic and frontal type), the dominant processes and properties shaping the flood response, and problems of model configuration and calibration. Another challenge is the quantification of uncertainty in this estimate and its use in risk level -based decision-making related to invoking flood warnings

That’s why our main objective is to make a web interface by using data from satellite data of NASA other various sources to detect flood zone area .Especially,GRACE RLO6 v2 dataset of NASA have been used.

How We Developed This Project

Machine learning, specifically deep learning has been used to train a model which will predict flood in a specific region.

Tools that has been used: Machine Learning with TensorFlow, specifically Convolutional Neural Network for Time Series Prediction.

Other Tools Python, Flask Framework, HTML, CSS and JavaScript. etc.


Our aim is to gain an accuracy of 95 percent or more.


Main feature: Our main feature of web interface are


  • Prediction of flood with map of searched region,
  • Predicted water level of searched region,
  • Probability of flood according to machine learning model,
  • Expected time of flood and duration of flood,
  • Danger level of searched region.
  • Also users can subscribe for flooding alert via email which will help to reduce the loss of flood. 
How We Used Space Agency Data in This Project

We used Equivalent Water Height data from GRACE RL06 of NASA to predict potential future floods. This can be done for any place on earth!

Tags
#Conquering _flood, #Flood forecasting, #Probability_of_flood
Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Judging process.