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High-resolution topographic data are crucial for delta water management, such as hydrological modeling, inland flood routing, etc. Nevertheless, the availability of high-resolution topographic data is often lacking, particularly in low-lying regions in developing countries. This data scarcity poses a significant obstacle to inland flood modeling. However, collecting detailed topographic data is demanding, time-consuming, and costly, making remote sensing techniques a promising solution for developing flood inundation analysis models worldwide. This study presents a novel understanding for utilizing topographical elevations obtained using remote sensing techniques to create a flood inundation analysis model. In a study of three watersheds, Kameda, Niitsu, and Shirone (Japan), the assessment of digital terrain models (DTMs) showed that remote sensing-based DTMs (RS-DTMs) exhibited high reliability of coefficient of determination (R2) and root-mean-square errors, compared with the airborne LiDAR-based topography from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan. Comparing the flood modeling results from LiDAR data and RS-DTM, with Kameda and Niitsu performing favorable outcomes, Shirone exhibited less accurate results. We hypothesized that this was caused by the topographic distortions due to lack of evenly distributed reference points. Hence, we revised the topography by adjusting both the slope and intercept from the regression equation. This verification successfully showed that the flood inundation volume correlation improved, achieving R2 results for the three watersheds ranging from 0.975 to 0.997 and Nash–Sutcliffe Efficiencies ranging from 0.938 to 0.986 between the resulting flood models based on the LiDAR data and RS-DTM. Based on these findings, we recognized the significance of uniformly distributed geodetic height points. In areas lacking height references, high-precision survey instruments can be employed for achieving uniform distribution.
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This work was supported by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) as part of Strategic International Collaborative Research Program (SICORP), Grant Number JPMJSC20E1, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (Kemendikbudristek) of Indonesia, Contract Number 001/E5/PG.02.00.PL/2023 and Sub-contract Number 15823/IT3.D10/PT.01.02/P/T/2023, and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) of Vietnam, Grant Number NDT/e-ASIA/22/26.
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Rau, M.I., Julzarika, A., Yoshikawa, N. et al. Application of topographic elevation data generated by remote sensing approaches to flood inundation analysis model. Paddy Water Environ 22, 285–299 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10333-023-00967-1
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