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Applicability of the Deep Learning Flood Forecast Model Against the Inexperienced Magnitude of Flood

7 pagesPublished: September 20, 2018

Abstract

Although artificial neural networks (ANN) is widely used for real-time flood prediction model, it is pointed out that the weak point of the model is poor applicability for the inexperienced magnitude of flood. In this study, the ANN models were applied to first-grade rivers in Japan, Tokoro River catchment and Abashiri River catchment. The training data of the ANN models were all the rainfall-runoff event which exceeded the Flood Watch Water Level during the period of 1998-2015. Types of observation data were river-stage and rainfall at 1-hour pitch. The validation data was the largest flood since the river-stage observation had started. The main component of the model was the four-layer feed-forward network. As a network training method, the deep learning based on the denoising autoencoder was applied. The output of the neural network was change in river-stage in T hours at the prediction point. The input data was the upstream river-stage, hourly change in river-stage and hourly rainfall. The river- stage prediction up to 6 hours showed very good accuracy, and It was proved that it can be nicely predicted even for the past largest flood.

Keyphrases: deep learning, flood prediction, neural network

In: Goffredo La Loggia, Gabriele Freni, Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis (editors). HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, vol 3, pages 901-907.

BibTeX entry
@inproceedings{HIC2018:Applicability_Deep_Learning_Flood,
  author    = {Masayuki Hitokoto and Masaaki Sakuraba},
  title     = {Applicability of the Deep Learning Flood Forecast Model Against the Inexperienced Magnitude of Flood},
  booktitle = {HIC 2018. 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics},
  editor    = {Goffredo La Loggia and Gabriele Freni and Valeria Puleo and Mauro De Marchis},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Engineering},
  volume    = {3},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2516-2330},
  url       = {/publications/paper/dCsn},
  doi       = {10.29007/fdp5},
  pages     = {901-907},
  year      = {2018}}
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