Journal
GEOCARTO INTERNATIONAL
Volume 36, Issue 18, Pages 2085-2116Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2019.1687594
Keywords
Flood susceptibility; frequency ratio; Shannon's entropy; model comparison; Middle Ganga Floodplain; India
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This study compared flood susceptibility models in the Middle Ganga Plain, Ganga foreland basin, using 12 major flood explanatory factors including geomorphology. The results showed that geomorphology is the most important factor, and the SE model outperformed the FR model in predicting flood-susceptible areas in the study area, as indicated by a higher AUROC curve (0.90 vs. 0.85).
This work focuses on comparing results of flood susceptibility modelling in the part of Middle Ganga Plain, Ganga foreland basin. Following inclusivity rule, 12 major flood explanatory factors including a new one, geomorphology, have been utilized. Out of 1000 randomly generated flood-points from 2008 Landsat 5 TM image derived flood polygon, 70% have been utilized for the training purpose of Shannon's entropy (SE) model and 30% for area under receiver operating characteristic (AUROC) method of validation of both, SE and frequency ratio (FR), models. Result from FR shows that the contributions of specific classes of different explanatory factors to flooding susceptibility vary whereas the SE model suggests that geomorphology is the most contributing factor. The AUROC curve for SE (0.90) was better than that for FR (0.85). Hence, the SE model predicts flood-susceptible areas more accurately than the multivariate statistical model FR in the study area.
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