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Workshop: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning

Flood Prediction with Graph Neural Networks

Arlei Silva · Arnold Kazadi · James Doss-Gollin · Antonia Sebastian


Abstract:

Climate change is increasing the frequency of flooding around the world. As a consequence, there is an increasing demand for effective flood prediction. Machine learning is a promising alternative to hydrodynamic models for flood prediction. However, existing approaches focus on capturing either the spatial or temporal flood patterns using CNNs or RNNs, respectively. In this work, we propose FloodGNN, which is a graph neural network (GNN) for flood prediction. Compared to existing approaches, FloodGNN (i) employs a graph-based model (GNN); (ii) operates on both spatial and temporal dimensions; and (iii) processes the water flow velocities as vector features, instead of scalar features. Experiments show that FloodGNN achieves promising results, outperforming an RNN-based baseline.

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