Patent ID: 11907819
Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method of generating a flood inundation map in near real time, the method comprising:
identifying, with an electronic processor, a flood event;
retrieving, with an electronic processor, a plurality of satellite images of an area defined by the flood event; and
receiving, by a kernel algorithm system, the satellite images, the kernel algorithm system configured to
apply a water identifier or a non-water identifier for each of the pixels in the satellite images,
morphologically process the satellite images to reduce over-detection of the bodies of water and to reduce under-detection of the bodies of water,
apply a multi-threshold compensation to reduce speckle noise in the bodies of water,
apply machine learning-based correction for speckle, and
generate a flood inundation map.