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Floods are an important concern in the world, calling for improved intervention strategies like rapid flood mapping using remote sensing and GIS. The central focus of this work is to mark the flood zones of any desired location and prepare flood hazard maps. Flood mapping as presented in this paper uses sophisticated multi-objective optimisation algorithms to identify and assess flood risk. This android application can be used as a Geo-spatial Tool for analysing the probability of floods in any desired location and checking the safety level of the user’s location/property and alert the inhabitants thereby helping to evacuate or relocate them to safer zones. This application shows a clear demarcation of risk zones which have maximum flooding and also the safe zones. The two scanning options provided would give results for analysing an individual property or a whole city and provide the possible risk zones in the measured radius. The Algorithm which uses the principle of Artificial Intelligence is highly efficient in sensing the topography of the location regardless of whether it is a mountain or a plain and provides results with great efficacy.
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Samuael, S.J., Arul, J.S., Padua, J.C. (2019). Geospatial Flood Risk Mapping and Analysis Tool. In: Rao, P., Rao, K., Kubo, S. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on Remote Sensing for Disaster Management. Springer Series in Geomechanics and Geoengineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77276-9_30
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