Environmental Remote Sensing in Flooding Areas : A Case Study of Ayutthaya, Thailand

This book introduces flood inundation area and flood risks assessment based on a comprehensive monitoring system using remote sensing and geographic information system technologies. Taking the 2011 flood disaster of Ayutthaya in Thailand as an example, it presents a flood intrusion zone identification method based on remote sensing technology, spatial information technology and geographic information system for flood disaster monitoring and early warning system. It introduces the study area and data, vegetation index, improved support vector machine and flood intrusion zone identification method. It also analyzes the flood remote sensing parameters and waterborne diseases, method of risk assessment of waterborne disease outbreak, waterborne disease outbreak risk monitoring based on backpropagation neural network and its expert system. It not only promotes a new interdisciplinary approach both in public health and space information technology, but also greatly supports decision makers in disaster reduction. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Geographical Characteristics of the Study Area (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 3-12 Datasets and Data Preparation (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 13-27 Flooding Identification by Vegetation Index (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 29-44 Flooding Identification by Support Vector Machine (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 45-55 Improved Support Vector Machine Classifier Through a Particle Filter Algorithm (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 57-94 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 Flood-Related Parameters Affecting Waterborne Diseases (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 97-107 Measure of Disease Risk (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 109-120 Modeling Outbreak Risk Based on the Back Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) Algorithm (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 121-134 Application of Surveillance of Communicable Disease Risk Using Expert Systems (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 135-143 Conclusions and Discussions (Chunxiang Cao, Min Xu, Patcharin Kamsing, Sornkitja Boonprong, Peera Yomwan, Apitach Saokarn)....Pages 145-148