Semi-supervised identification and mapping of surface water extent using street-level monitoring videos

Urban flooding is becoming a common and devastating hazard, which causes life loss and economic damage. Monitoring and understanding urban flooding in a highly localized scale is a challenging task due to the complicated urban landscape, intricate hydraulic process, and the lack of high-quality and...

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Main Authors: Ruo-Qian Wang, Yangmin Ding
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Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2022-11-01
Series:Big Earth Data
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/20964471.2022.2123352
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description Urban flooding is becoming a common and devastating hazard, which causes life loss and economic damage. Monitoring and understanding urban flooding in a highly localized scale is a challenging task due to the complicated urban landscape, intricate hydraulic process, and the lack of high-quality and resolution data. The emerging smart city technology such as monitoring cameras provides an unprecedented opportunity to address the data issue. However, estimating water ponding extents on land surfaces based on monitoring footage is unreliable using the traditional segmentation technique because the boundary of the water ponding, under the influence of varying weather, background, and illumination, is usually too fuzzy to identify, and the oblique angle and image distortion in the video monitoring data prevents georeferencing and object-based measurements. This paper presents a novel semi-supervised segmentation scheme for surface water extent recognition from the footage of an oblique monitoring camera. The semi-supervised segmentation algorithm was found suitable to determine the water boundary and the monoplotting method was successfully applied to georeference the pixels of the monitoring video for the virtual quantification of the local drainage process. The correlation and mechanism-based analysis demonstrate the value of the proposed method in advancing the understanding of local drainage hydraulics. The workflow and created methods in this study have a great potential to study other street-level and earth surface processes.
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spelling doaj.art-60e13622b6d04ac388a77aee5f8c4e9a2022-12-22T04:14:30ZengTaylor & Francis GroupBig Earth Data2096-44712574-54172022-11-0111910.1080/20964471.2022.2123352Semi-supervised identification and mapping of surface water extent using street-level monitoring videosRuo-Qian Wang0Yangmin Ding1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USANEC Laboratories America Inc, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ, USAUrban flooding is becoming a common and devastating hazard, which causes life loss and economic damage. Monitoring and understanding urban flooding in a highly localized scale is a challenging task due to the complicated urban landscape, intricate hydraulic process, and the lack of high-quality and resolution data. The emerging smart city technology such as monitoring cameras provides an unprecedented opportunity to address the data issue. However, estimating water ponding extents on land surfaces based on monitoring footage is unreliable using the traditional segmentation technique because the boundary of the water ponding, under the influence of varying weather, background, and illumination, is usually too fuzzy to identify, and the oblique angle and image distortion in the video monitoring data prevents georeferencing and object-based measurements. This paper presents a novel semi-supervised segmentation scheme for surface water extent recognition from the footage of an oblique monitoring camera. The semi-supervised segmentation algorithm was found suitable to determine the water boundary and the monoplotting method was successfully applied to georeference the pixels of the monitoring video for the virtual quantification of the local drainage process. The correlation and mechanism-based analysis demonstrate the value of the proposed method in advancing the understanding of local drainage hydraulics. The workflow and created methods in this study have a great potential to study other street-level and earth surface processes.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/20964471.2022.2123352Segmentationdeep learningmonoplottingsmart citymonocular visual data
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Semi-supervised identification and mapping of surface water extent using street-level monitoring videos
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Segmentation
deep learning
monoplotting
smart city
monocular visual data
title Semi-supervised identification and mapping of surface water extent using street-level monitoring videos
title_full Semi-supervised identification and mapping of surface water extent using street-level monitoring videos
title_fullStr Semi-supervised identification and mapping of surface water extent using street-level monitoring videos
title_full_unstemmed Semi-supervised identification and mapping of surface water extent using street-level monitoring videos
title_short Semi-supervised identification and mapping of surface water extent using street-level monitoring videos
title_sort semi supervised identification and mapping of surface water extent using street level monitoring videos
topic Segmentation
deep learning
monoplotting
smart city
monocular visual data
url https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/20964471.2022.2123352
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