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Title: HYDRO-GEOMORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTORS FOR DETECTION OF FLOOD-PRONE AREAS USING HIGH-RESOLUTION UAV PHOTOGRAMMETRY DATA

HYDRO-GEOMORPHOLOGICAL DESCRIPTORS FOR DETECTION OF FLOOD-PRONE AREAS USING HIGH-RESOLUTION UAV PHOTOGRAMMETRY DATA
E. Tcherkezova
1314-2704
English
21
2.1
• Prof. DSc. Oleksandr Trofymchuk, UKRAINE
• Prof. Dr. hab. oec. Baiba Rivza, LATVIA
Flood events, as well as the channel and floodplain landforms are crucial for the transport and spatial distribution of heavy metals and metalloids in soils in the river valleys.
The paper outlines the results of obtained preliminary indications about the flood proneness of two study areas located in the valleys of Ogosta River near the village of Gorna Kovachitsa and Lom River near the village of Vasilovtsi (NW Bulgaria) based on hydro-geomorphological indices. The detection of flood-prone areas has been done using two key data products of UAV photogrammetry data ? the digital terrain model (DTM) and the orthophotos with grid size 1 m. Flood-prone areas have been identified using GIS techniques based on several hydro-geomorphological indexes extracted from digital terrain models (DTMs). Firstly, they were evaluated individually by their hydro-morphographic and topographic meaning according to the literature and analysis in geomorphological context, as well as through defining thresholds and analysis in topographical context to select the best performing classifiers. Secondly, the selected hydro-geomorphic descriptors have been binary classified to distinguish between flood-prone and non-flooded areas and used for creation of binary flood-prone areas maps, which were merged together and evaluated according their altitude above the river. A second methodological approach applied in this work is based on calculation of potentially flood areas from the raster “Vertical Distance to Channel Network” using the GRASS GIS module r.lake implemented in QGIS and binary classification. The orthoimages were used for extraction of the rivers geometry using object-based segmentation and classification. Additionally, the obtained results have been compared with the previous flooding data in the area of Ogosta Valley near Gorna Kovachitsa from flood in 2014.
The obtained results highlight the potential for the GIS-based detection of flood-prone areas over ungauged areas and will be used for modelling the spatial distribution of heavy metals in soils in the study areas.
conference
21st International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2021
21st International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference SGEM 2021, 16 - 22 August, 2021
Proceedings Paper
STEF92 Technology
SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference
SWS Scholarly Society; Acad Sci Czech Republ; Latvian Acad Sci; Polish Acad Sci; Serbian Acad Sci & Arts; Natl Acad Sci Ukraine; Natl Acad Sci Armenia; Sci Council Japan; European Acad Sci, Arts & Letters; Acad Fine Arts Zagreb Croatia; Croatian Acad Sci
301-310
16 - 22 August, 2021
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cdrom
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hydro-geomorphological descriptors; flood-prone areas; Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry; digital terrain model (DTM); Geographic Information Systems (GIS)