A GIS-Based Support Vector Machine Model for Flash Flood Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping in China
Flash floods are one of the natural disasters that threaten the lives of many people all over the world every year. Flash floods are significantly affected by the intensification of extreme climate events and interactions with exposed and vulnerable socio-economic systems impede regional development...
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| description | Flash floods are one of the natural disasters that threaten the lives of many people all over the world every year. Flash floods are significantly affected by the intensification of extreme climate events and interactions with exposed and vulnerable socio-economic systems impede regional development processes. Hence, it is important to estimate the loss due to flash floods before the disaster occurs. However, there are no comprehensive vulnerability assessment results for flash floods in China. Fortunately, the National Mountain Flood Disaster Investigation Project provided a foundation to develop this proposed assessment. In this study, an index system was established from the exposure and disaster reduction capability categories, and is based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methods. We evaluated flash flood vulnerability by adopting the support vector machine (SVM) model. Our results showed 439 counties with high and extremely high vulnerability (accounting for 10.5% of the land area and corresponding to approximately 100 million hectares (ha)), 571 counties with moderate vulnerability (accounting for 19.18% of the land area and corresponding to approximately 180 million ha), and 1128 counties with low and extremely low vulnerability (accounting for 39.43% of the land area and corresponding to approximately 370 million ha). The highly-vulnerable counties were mainly concentrated in the south and southeast regions of China, moderately-vulnerable counties were primarily concentrated in the central, northern, and southwestern regions of China, and low-vulnerability counties chiefly occurred in the northwest regions of China. Additionally, the results of the spatial autocorrelation suggested that the “High-High” values of spatial agglomeration areas mainly occurred in the Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Chongqing, and Beijing areas. On the basis of these results, our study can be used as a proposal for population and building distribution readjustments, and the management of flash floods in China. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0b4fc21d7680451383a54fb949bf929e2022-12-22T00:47:09ZengMDPI AGISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information2220-99642019-07-018729710.3390/ijgi8070297ijgi8070297A GIS-Based Support Vector Machine Model for Flash Flood Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping in ChinaJunnan Xiong0Jin Li1Weiming Cheng2Nan Wang3Liang Guo4School of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, ChinaSchool of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, ChinaState Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing 100101, ChinaChina Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, Beijing 100038, ChinaFlash floods are one of the natural disasters that threaten the lives of many people all over the world every year. Flash floods are significantly affected by the intensification of extreme climate events and interactions with exposed and vulnerable socio-economic systems impede regional development processes. Hence, it is important to estimate the loss due to flash floods before the disaster occurs. However, there are no comprehensive vulnerability assessment results for flash floods in China. Fortunately, the National Mountain Flood Disaster Investigation Project provided a foundation to develop this proposed assessment. In this study, an index system was established from the exposure and disaster reduction capability categories, and is based on analytic hierarchy process (AHP) methods. We evaluated flash flood vulnerability by adopting the support vector machine (SVM) model. Our results showed 439 counties with high and extremely high vulnerability (accounting for 10.5% of the land area and corresponding to approximately 100 million hectares (ha)), 571 counties with moderate vulnerability (accounting for 19.18% of the land area and corresponding to approximately 180 million ha), and 1128 counties with low and extremely low vulnerability (accounting for 39.43% of the land area and corresponding to approximately 370 million ha). The highly-vulnerable counties were mainly concentrated in the south and southeast regions of China, moderately-vulnerable counties were primarily concentrated in the central, northern, and southwestern regions of China, and low-vulnerability counties chiefly occurred in the northwest regions of China. Additionally, the results of the spatial autocorrelation suggested that the “High-High” values of spatial agglomeration areas mainly occurred in the Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangxi, Chongqing, and Beijing areas. On the basis of these results, our study can be used as a proposal for population and building distribution readjustments, and the management of flash floods in China.https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/7/297GISflash flood vulnerability assessmentexposuredisaster reduction capabilitySVMChina |
| spellingShingle | Junnan Xiong Jin Li Weiming Cheng Nan Wang Liang Guo A GIS-Based Support Vector Machine Model for Flash Flood Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping in China ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information GIS flash flood vulnerability assessment exposure disaster reduction capability SVM China |
| title | A GIS-Based Support Vector Machine Model for Flash Flood Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping in China |
| title_full | A GIS-Based Support Vector Machine Model for Flash Flood Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping in China |
| title_fullStr | A GIS-Based Support Vector Machine Model for Flash Flood Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping in China |
| title_full_unstemmed | A GIS-Based Support Vector Machine Model for Flash Flood Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping in China |
| title_short | A GIS-Based Support Vector Machine Model for Flash Flood Vulnerability Assessment and Mapping in China |
| title_sort | gis based support vector machine model for flash flood vulnerability assessment and mapping in china |
| topic | GIS flash flood vulnerability assessment exposure disaster reduction capability SVM China |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/8/7/297 |
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