Flood mapping from proxy surface water and ocean topography (SWOT) satellite mission data over India

Authors:Patidar, Girish Karmakar, Subhankar Indu, J.

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DOI:10.1080/10106049.2022.2113446

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Document Type:Article; Early Access

Abstract:The Surface Water and Ocean Topographic (SWOT) mission is aimed to improve flood mapping by providing high-resolution data of water surface elevation, slope and water extent for rivers wider than 100 m and water bodies as small as 62500 m(2). Although, SWOT's data latency and huge data size of rawest point cloud data make it impracticable for real or near-real-time flood forecasting but the SWOT data will provide new insight in the first-hand information of flood mapping. In this study, we explore the potential of SWOT mission for flood mapping over India. It is observed that the spatio-temporal resolution of SWOT allows the observation of 0.67%, 15.79%, 29.24%, 45.54%, and 8.06% of Indian districts with one, two, three, four and more than four observations per cycle of SWOT respectively. It is observed that SWOT would have observed 49.6% of flood events at least once if the mission were launched earlier. The SWOT could also observe 30.6% of small flood events with flood duration <4 at least once. Using the information, this study proposes a flood severity map by combining geomorphological and physical flood parameters for a reach of Brahmaputra river. From the map different flood severity zones can be observed.

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Corresponding Author:Indu, J (通讯作者)，Indian Inst Technol, Interdisciplinary Program Climate Studies, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.;Indu, J (通讯作者)，Indian Inst Technol, Dept Civil Engn, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Reprint Address:Indu, J (通讯作者)，Indian Inst Technol, Interdisciplinary Program Climate Studies, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.;Indu, J (通讯作者)，Indian Inst Technol, Dept Civil Engn, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Addresses:[Patidar, Girish; Karmakar, Subhankar; Indu, J.] Indian Inst Technol, Interdisciplinary Program Climate Studies, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; [Karmakar, Subhankar] Indian Inst Technol, Environm Sci & Engn Dept, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; [Indu, J.] Indian Inst Technol, Dept Civil Engn, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

E-mail Addresses:indusj@civil.iitb.ac.in

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