Hossein Taherijafari
Flood disaster management using Earth Observation technologies.
Rel. Piero Boccardo, Sona Guliyeva. Politecnico di Torino, Corso di laurea magistrale in Ingegneria Per L'Ambiente E Il Territorio, 2025
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Abstract
Floods are among the most frequent and damaging disasters worldwide, affecting millions of people and causing high economic losses. Traditional ground-based monitoring systems often lack sufficient coverage, particularly in vulnerable regions, creating a need for more reliable tools. Satellite-based Earth Observation (EO) has emerged as a vital resource for flood detection, monitoring, and management. Satellites including Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, Landsat, and commercial constellations like Planetscope, Skysat, COSMO-SkyMed provide valuable datasets to map inundation, assess damage, and guide emergency response. This thesis focuses on the Emilia-Romagna floods of May 2023, one of Italy’s most severe in recent decades, particularly in Spazzate-Sassatelli. Using Sentinel-2 (open-source) and SkySat (commercial) imagery, a modular Python-based algorithm was developed to process images based on K-means clustering machine learning method.
Results showed that Sentinel-2 could generate regional maps in less than one minute using cloud-based processing such as Google colab, while SkySat provided finer-scale details within ~4 minutes on local hardware
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