Mapping spatio-temporal flood inundation dynamics at large river basin scale using time-series flow data and MODIS imagery

Abstract Flood inundation is crucial to the survival and prosperity of flora and fauna communities in floodplain and wetland ecosystems. This study tried to map flood inundation characteristics in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia, utilizing hydrological and remotely sensed data. It integrated river flow time series and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) images to map inundation dynamics over the study area on both temporal and spatial dimensions. Flow data were analyzed to derive flow peaks and Annual Exceedance Probabilities (AEPs) using the annual flood series method. The peaks were linked with MODIS images for inundation detection. Ten annual maximum inundation maps were generated for water years 2001–2010, which were then overlaid to derive an inundation frequency map. AEPs were also combined with the annual maximum inundation maps to derive an inundation probability map. The resultant maps revealed spatial and temporal patterns of flood inundation in the basin, which will benefit ecological and environmental studies when considering response of floodplain and wetland ecosystems to flood inundation.

[1]  J. R. Landis,et al.  The measurement of observer agreement for categorical data. , 1977, Biometrics.

[2]  Vincent V. Salomonson,et al.  Regional flood mapping from space , 1974 .

[3]  W. Collischonn,et al.  Large‐scale modelling of channel flow and floodplain inundation dynamics and its application to the Pantanal (Brazil) , 2011 .

[4]  John Louis,et al.  Relating wetland inundation to river flow using Landsat TM data , 2003 .

[5]  Bin Li,et al.  Flood monitoring and analysis over the middle reaches of Yangtze River basin using MODIS time-series imagery , 2011, 2011 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

[6]  K. Page,et al.  COMPARISON OF ANNUAL AND PARTIAL DURATION SERIES FLOODS ON THE MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER , 1981 .

[7]  Betül Saf,et al.  Regional Flood Frequency Analysis Using L Moments for the Buyuk and Kucuk Menderes River Basins of Turkey , 2009 .

[8]  G. Lannoy,et al.  Assimilating SAR-derived water level data into a hydraulic model: A case study , 2011 .

[9]  S. L. Guo.  A discussion on unbiased plotting positions for the general extreme value distribution , 1990 .

[10]  Richard T. Kingsford,et al.  Landsat mapping of annual inundation (1979–2006) of the Macquarie Marshes in semi-arid Australia , 2011 .

[11]  Paul Frazier,et al.  A reach‐scale remote sensing technique to relate wetland inundation to river flow , 2009 .

[12]  C. Pringle.  What is hydrologic connectivity and why is it ecologically important? , 2003 .

[13]  M. Islam,et al.  Flood hazard assessment in Bangladesh using NOAA AVHRR data with geographical information system , 2000 .

[14]  L. Smith,et al.  Estimation of Discharge From Three Braided Rivers Using Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellite Imagery: Potential Application to Ungaged Basins , 1996 .

[15]  F. Pappenberger,et al.  Deriving global flood hazard maps of fluvial floods through a physical model cascade , 2012 .

[16]  D. Lettenmaier,et al.  Measuring surface water from space , 2004 .

[17]  P. Bates,et al.  A subgrid channel model for simulating river hydraulics and floodplain inundation over large and data sparse areas , 2012 .

[18]  H. Winsemius,et al.  Automated global water mapping based on wide-swath orbital synthetic-aperture radar , 2012 .

[19]  P. D. Bhavsar.  Review of remote sensing applications in hydrology and water resources management in India , 1984 .

[20]  S. K. McFeeters.  The use of the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI) in the delineation of open water features , 1996 .

[21]  B. Choudhury,et al.  Analyzing the discharge regime of a large tropical river through remote sensing, ground‐based climatic data, and modeling , 1996 .

[22]  Yun Chen,et al.  Spatial modelling of potential soil water retention under floodplain inundation using remote sensing and GIS , 2012 .

[23]  M. Friedl,et al.  Using MODIS data to characterize seasonal inundation patterns in the Florida Everglades , 2008 .

[24]  C. Cunnane.  Unbiased plotting positions — A review , 1978 .

[25]  Patrick Matgen,et al.  Integration of SAR-derived river inundation areas, high-precision topographic data and a river flow model toward near real-time flood management , 2007, Int. J. Appl. Earth Obs. Geoinformation.

[26]  N. Seçkin,et al.  Flood frequency analysis of Turkey using L‐moments method , 2011 .

[27]  Hongjoon Shin,et al.  Development of plotting position for the general extreme value distribution , 2012 .

[28]  G. S. Stelling,et al.  Use Of An Integrated One Dimensional-two Dimensional Hydraulic Modelling Approach For Flood Hazard And Risk Mapping , 2001 .

[29]  J. Nelson,et al.  U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center-Fiscal Year 2009 Annual Report , 2010 .

[30]  T. Sakamoto,et al.  Detecting temporal changes in the extent of annual flooding within the cambodia and the vietnamese mekong delta from MODIS time-series imagery , 2007 .

[31]  Yun Chen,et al.  Linking inundation timing and extent to ecological response models using the Murray-Darling Basin Floodplain Inundation Model (MDB-FIM) , 2010 .

[32]  L. Smith.  Satellite remote sensing of river inundation area, stage, and discharge: a review , 1997 .

[33]  F Thomas Rachael,et al.  オーストラリアの半乾燥のMacquarie湿地の毎年の氾濫(1979-2006)のランドサットマッピング | 文献情報 | J-GLOBAL 科学技術総合リンクセンター , 2011 .

[34]  Hanqiu Xu.  Modification of normalised difference water index (NDWI) to enhance open water features in remotely sensed imagery , 2006 .

[35]  P. Bates,et al.  A simple inertial formulation of the shallow water equations for efficient two-dimensional flood inundation modelling. , 2010 .

[36]  Shifeng Huang,et al.  Water surface variations monitoring and flood hazard analysis in Dongting Lake area using long-term Terra/MODIS data time series , 2012, Natural Hazards.

[37]  B. Xu,et al.  Spectral mixture analysis for bi-sensor wetland mapping using Landsat TM and Terra MODIS data , 2012 .

[38]  J. Gallant,et al.  A multiresolution index of valley bottom flatness for mapping depositional areas , 2003 .

[39]  Jong Geol Park,et al.  Nation-wide flood risk assessment using inundation level model and MODIS time-series imagery , 2011, 2011 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

[40]  William B. Rossow,et al.  Monitoring Flood and Discharge Variations in the Large Siberian Rivers From a Multi-Satellite Technique , 2008 .

[41]  Dennis P. Lettenmaier,et al.  Tracking Fresh Water from Space , 2003, Science.

[42]  I. Chaubey,et al.  FLOOD PULSE DYNAMICS OF AN UNREGULATED RIVER FLOODPLAIN IN THE SOUTHEASTERN U.S. COASTAL PLAIN , 2000 .

[43]  Matthew D. Wilson,et al.  Modeling large‐scale inundation of Amazonian seasonally flooded wetlands , 2007 .

[44]  Martin C. Thoms,et al.  Water resource development and hydrological change in a large dryland river: the Barwon–Darling River, Australia , 2000 .

[45]  S. Kanae,et al.  A physically based description of floodplain inundation dynamics in a global river routing model , 2011 .

[46]  C. Ticehurst,et al.  An Evaluation of MODIS Daily and 8-day Composite Products for Floodplain and Wetland Inundation Mapping , 2013, Wetlands.

[47]  Jia Yu,et al.  Detecting floodplain inundation frequency using MODIS time-series imagery , 2012, 2012 First International Conference on Agro- Geoinformatics (Agro-Geoinformatics).

[48]  Paul D. Bates,et al.  Automatic near real-time selection of flood water levels from high resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar images for assimilation into hydraulic models: A case study , 2012 .

[49]  B. Gao.  NDWI—A normalized difference water index for remote sensing of vegetation liquid water from space , 1996 .

[50]  L. Bren,et al.  Relationships between flood frequency, vegetation and topography in a river red gum forest , 1986 .

[51]  Irving I. Gringorten,et al.  A plotting rule for extreme probability paper , 1963 .

[52]  M. Islam,et al.  Development of flood hazard maps of Bangladesh using NOAA-AVHRR images with GIS , 2000 .

[53]  Piotr Wolski,et al.  Forecasting the spatial extent of the annual flood in the Okavango delta, Botswana , 2004 .

[54]  Yun Chen,et al.  A dem-based modified pixel swapping algorithm for floodplain inundation mapping at subpixel scale , 2013, 2013 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium - IGARSS.

[55]  R. R. De Wulf,et al.  Modelling yearly flooding extent of the Waza-Logone floodplain in northern Cameroon based on MODIS and rainfall data , 2009 .

[56]  C. Justice,et al.  Analysis of the dynamics of African vegetation using the normalized difference vegetation index , 1986 .

[57]  P. Bates,et al.  Scheduling satellite-based SAR acquisition for sequential assimilation of water level observations into flood modelling , 2013 .

[58]  A. Islam,et al.  Flood inundation map of Bangladesh using MODIS time‐series images , 2010 .

[59]  Peng Gong,et al.  Modelling spatial‐temporal change of Poyang Lake using multitemporal Landsat imagery , 2008 .

[60]  K. Tockner,et al.  Riverine landscape diversity , 2002 .

[61]  F. Blasco,et al.  Estimating the extent of floods in Bangladesh using SPOT data , 1992 .

[62]  A. Robertson,et al.  The responses of floodplain primary production to flood frequency and timing , 2001 .

[63]  E. M. Laurenson.  Back to basics on flood frequency analysis , 1987 .

[64]  Guy Byrne,et al.  MODIS-based standing water detection for flood and large reservoir mapping: Algorithm development and applications for the Australian continent , 2011 .

[65]  Peter Goodwin,et al.  Environmental aspects of integrated flood management , 2006 .

[66]  P. Bates,et al.  Timely Low Resolution SAR Imagery To Support Floodplain Modelling: a Case Study Review , 2011 .

[67]  I. Overton,et al.  Modelling floodplain inundation on a regulated river: integrating GIS, remote sensing and hydrological models , 2005 .

[68]  B. Wylie,et al.  Analysis of Dynamic Thresholds for the Normalized Difference Water Index , 2009 .

[69]  Richard T. Kingsford,et al.  Classifying landform at broad spatial scales: the distribution and conservation of wetlands in New South Wales, Australia , 2004 .

[70]  Dushmanta Dutta,et al.  A two‐dimensional hydrodynamic model for flood inundation simulation: a case study in the lower Mekong river basin , 2007 .

[71]  Xi Chen,et al.  Regional Frequency Analysis of Low Flow Based on L Moments: Case Study in Karst Area, Southwest China , 2010 .

[72]  Kerrylee Rogers,et al.  Floodplain Wetland Biota in the Murray-Darling Basin , 2010 .

[73]  Yong Wang,et al.  An efficient method for mapping flood extent in a coastal floodplain using Landsat TM and DEM data , 2002 .

[74]  Nazzareno Pierdicca,et al.  Flood monitoring using multi-temporal COSMO-SkyMed data: Image segmentation and signature interpretation , 2011 .