Italian Flood Atlas / Emilia-Romagna
Floods, seen
by radar.
Past floods in Italy, mapped from Sentinel-1 satellite radar by a model trained and scored on a public benchmark. Each map shows its radar dates beside the official Copernicus emergency mapping, so you can see what the radar recorded and what it could not.
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A qualitative demonstration, not an accuracy claim.
The model’s accuracy is measured only on a public benchmark’s held-out test events. No independent labels exist for the Italian events, so any comparison with the emergency maps describes how two maps overlap; it is not accuracy. Not for emergency response or decisions about real places.
Events
Sentinel-1A / 22 May 2023 05:19 UTC
Castel Bolognese.
The Senio valley, Emilia-Romagna, after the flood of 16–17 May 2023. Radar from 28 April 2023, 10 May 2023 and 22 May 2023, beside the Copernicus EMSR664 delineation.
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Benchmark test / 10 held-out events
Scored once, on events it never saw.
A U-Net trained on the Kuro Siwo benchmark, compared with a fixed two-date radar change rule on the same test pixels.
How it was built and tested- Flood IoU, model
- 0.636
- Flood IoU, baseline
- 0.542
- Flood precision / recall, model
- 0.821 / 0.739