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https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-231
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-231
03 Apr 2023
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Stochastic properties of coastal flooding events – Part 1: CNN-based semantic segmentation for water detection

Byungho Kang, Rusty A. Feagin, Thomas Huff, and Orencio Duran Vinent

Abstract. The frequency and intensity of coastal flooding is expected to accelerate in low-elevation coastal areas due to sea level rise. Coastal flooding due to wave runup affects coastal ecosystems and infrastructure, however it can be difficult to monitor in remote and vulnerable areas. Here we use a camera-based system to monitor wave runup as part of the after-storm recovery of an eroded beach on the Texas coast. We analyze high-temporal resolution images of the beach using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based semantic segmentation to study the stochastic properties of runup-driven flooding events. In the first part of this work, we focus on the application of semantic segmentation to identify water and runup events. We train and validate a CNN with over 500 manually classified images, and introduce a post-processing method to reduce false positives. We find that the accuracy of CNN predictions of water pixels is around 90% and strongly depend on the number and diversity of images used for training.

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03 Jan 2024
Stochastic properties of coastal flooding events – Part 1: convolutional-neural-network-based semantic segmentation for water detection
Byungho Kang, Rusty A. Feagin, Thomas Huff, and Orencio Durán Vinent
Earth Surf. Dynam., 12, 1–10, https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-12-1-2024, 2024
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Coastal flooding can cause significant damage to coastal ecosystems, infrastructure and...
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