Evolution of floods: from ancient times to the present times (CA 7600 BC to the present) and the future

AN Angelakis, AG Capodaglio, M Valipour… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
Floods are one of the most dangerous natural disasters, causing great destruction, damage,
and even fatalities worldwide. Flooding is the phenomenon of a sudden increase or even …

A critical review of water resources in Greece: The key role of agricultural adaptation to climate-water effects

NN Kourgialas - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Τhe management and protection of a country's water resources is a matter of high priority,
ensuring the development and socio-economic stability of a country. Unquestionably …

Rapid and robust monitoring of flood events using Sentinel-1 and Landsat data on the Google Earth Engine

B DeVries, C Huang, J Armston, W Huang… - Remote sensing of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) sensors represent an indispensable data source for flood
disaster planners and responders, given their ability to image the Earth's surface nearly …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting flood susceptibility using LSTM neural networks

Z Fang, Y Wang, L Peng, H Hong - Journal of Hydrology, 2021 - Elsevier
Identifying floods and producing flood susceptibility maps are crucial steps for decision-
makers to prevent and manage disasters. Plenty of studies have used machine learning …

Application of fuzzy weight of evidence and data mining techniques in construction of flood susceptibility map of Poyang County, China

H Hong, P Tsangaratos, I Ilia, J Liu, AX Zhu… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
In China, floods are considered as the most frequent natural disaster responsible for severe
economic losses and serious damages recorded in agriculture and urban infrastructure …

Flash flood susceptibility modeling using an optimized fuzzy rule based feature selection technique and tree based ensemble methods

DT Bui, P Tsangaratos, PTT Ngo, TD Pham… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
The main objective of the present study was to provide a novel methodological approach for
flash flood susceptibility modeling based on a feature selection method (FSM) and tree …

[HTML][HTML] DEM resolution effects on machine learning performance for flood probability map**

M Avand, A Kuriqi, M Khazaei… - Journal of Hydro …, 2022 - Elsevier
Floods are among the devastating natural disasters that occurred very frequently in arid
regions during the last decades. Accurate assessment of the flood susceptibility map** is …

Flood susceptibility map** by integrating frequency ratio and index of entropy with multilayer perceptron and classification and regression tree

Y Wang, Z Fang, H Hong, R Costache… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Episodes of frequent flooding continue to increase, often causing serious damage and tools
to identify areas affected by such disasters have become indispensable in today's society …

Analysis of forest fire fatalities in southern Europe: Spain, Portugal, Greece and Sardinia (Italy)

DM Molina-Terrén, G Xanthopoulos… - … journal of wildland …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
Wildfire fatalities remain a significant problem in Mediterranean Europe. Although there is a
strong inter-annual variability with regard to their number, repeated tragic accidents remind …

[HTML][HTML] Gender, age and circumstances analysis of flood and landslide fatalities in Italy

P Salvati, O Petrucci, M Rossi, C Bianchi… - Science of the total …, 2018 - Elsevier
Floods and landslides are frequent and destructive geo-hydrological hazards that cause
harm to people every year. We analysed data on 1292 landslide and 771 flood fatalities that …