Deep Neural Networks with 3D Point Clouds for Empirical Friction Measurements in Hydrodynamic Flood Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.02234v1
• Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 18:44:53 GMT
• Title: Deep Neural Networks with 3D Point Clouds for Empirical Friction Measurements in Hydrodynamic Flood Models
• Authors: Francisco Haces-Garcia, Vasileios Kotzamanis, Craig Glennie, Hanadi Rifai,
• Abstract summary: Friction factors (FFs) are used to calculate momentum losses in flood models. Flood models often rely on surrogate observations (such as land use) to estimate FFs, introducing uncertainty. This research presents a laboratory-trained Deep Neural Network (DNN) trained using flume experiments with data augmentation techniques to measure Manning's n based on Point Cloud data.
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• Abstract: Friction is one of the cruxes of hydrodynamic modeling; flood conditions are highly sensitive to the Friction Factors (FFs) used to calculate momentum losses. However, empirical FFs are challenging to measure because they require laboratory experiments. Flood models often rely on surrogate observations (such as land use) to estimate FFs, introducing uncertainty. This research presents a laboratory-trained Deep Neural Network (DNN), trained using flume experiments with data augmentation techniques, to measure Manning's n based on Point Cloud data. The DNN was deployed on real-world lidar Point Clouds to directly measure Manning's n under regulatory and extreme storm events, showing improved prediction capabilities in both 1D and 2D hydrodynamic models. For 1D models, the lidar values decreased differences with regulatory models for in-channel water depth when compared to land cover values. For 1D/2D coupled models, the lidar values produced better agreement with flood extents measured from airborne imagery, while better matching flood insurance claim data for Hurricane Harvey. In both 1D and 1D/2D coupled models, lidar resulted in better agreement with validation gauges. For these reasons, the lidar measurements of Manning's n were found to improve both regulatory models and forecasts for extreme storm events, while simultaneously providing a pathway to standardize the measurement of FFs. Changing FFs significantly affected fluvial and pluvial flood models, while surge flooding was generally unaffected. Downstream flow conditions were found to change the importance of FFs to fluvial models, advancing the literature of friction in flood models. This research introduces a reliable, repeatable, and readily-accessible avenue to measure high-resolution FFs based on 3D point clouds, improving flood prediction, and removing uncertainty from hydrodynamic modeling.

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