no code implementations • 21 Mar 2024 • Thanh Huy Nguyen, Sophie Ricci, Andrea Piacentini, Charlotte Emery, Raquel Rodriguez Suquet, Santiago Peña Luque
This research work focuses on the assimilation of 2D flood extent maps derived from Sentinel-1 C-SAR imagery data, and water surface elevation from SWOT as well as in-situ water level measurements.
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2023 • Thanh Huy Nguyen, Sophie Ricci, Andrea Piacentini, Ehouarn Simon, Raquel Rodriguez Suquet, Santiago Peña Luque
The non-Gaussianity of the observation errors associated with the SAR flood observations violates a major hypothesis regarding the EnKF and jeopardizes the optimality of the filter analysis.
no code implementations • 14 Jun 2023 • Thanh Huy Nguyen, Sophie Ricci, Andrea Piacentini, Quentin Bonassies, Raquel Rodriguez Suquet, Santiago Peña Luque, Kevin Marlis, Cédric David
The challenges in operational flood forecasting lie in producing reliable forecasts given constrained computational resources and within processing times that are compatible with near-real-time forecasting.
no code implementations • 3 Apr 2023 • Thanh Huy Nguyen, Sophie Ricci, Andrea Piacentini, Ehouarn Simon, Raquel Rodriguez Suquet, Santiago Peña Luque
Flood simulation and forecast capability have been greatly improved thanks to advances in data assimilation (DA) strategies incorporating various types of observations; many are derived from spatial Earth Observation.
no code implementations • 14 Nov 2022 • Thanh Huy Nguyen, Sophie Ricci, Andrea Piacentini, Raquel Rodriguez Suquet, Gwendoline Blanchet, Santiago Pena Luque, Peter Kettig
It was also shown that the assimilation of Wet surface Ratio in the flood plain complementary to in-situ data in the river bed brings significative improvement when a corrective term on flood plain hydraulic state is included in the control vector.