Streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology

Flooding is an environmental hazard that occurs almost everywhere around the world. Analysis of streamflow data can give us important climatic information for flooding events. Persistent homology (PH), a new analysis tool in topological data analysis (TDA) offers a new way to look at the informati...

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Main Authors: Syed Mohamad Sadiq Syed Musa, Mohd Salmi Md Noorani, Fatimah Abdul Razak, Munira Ismail, Mohd Almie Alias
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Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
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author Syed Mohamad Sadiq Syed Musa,
Mohd Salmi Md Noorani,
Fatimah Abdul Razak,
Munira Ismail,
Mohd Almie Alias,
author_facet Syed Mohamad Sadiq Syed Musa,
Mohd Salmi Md Noorani,
Fatimah Abdul Razak,
Munira Ismail,
Mohd Almie Alias,
author_sort Syed Mohamad Sadiq Syed Musa,
building UKM Institutional Repository
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description Flooding is an environmental hazard that occurs almost everywhere around the world. Analysis of streamflow data can give us important climatic information for flooding events. Persistent homology (PH), a new analysis tool in topological data analysis (TDA) offers a new way to look at the information in a data set using qualitative approach. PH uses topology to extract topological features such as connected components and cycles that exist in the data set. In this paper, we present a new approach for streamflow data analysis for flood detection by using PH. An analysis was conducted at Sungai Kelantan, Malaysia. The result shows that PH gives different pattern of topological features for dry and wet periods. In particular, there are more persistent topological features in the form of connected components and cycles in the wet periods compared to the dry periods. We observed that the time series of the distance measure corresponding to the evolution of the components is consistent with the time series of the streamflow data. As a conclusion, this study suggests that the time series of the distance measure corresponding to the evolution of the components can be used for flood detection at Sungai Kelantan, Malaysia.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:202492022-10-25T07:52:06Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20249/ Streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology Syed Mohamad Sadiq Syed Musa, Mohd Salmi Md Noorani, Fatimah Abdul Razak, Munira Ismail, Mohd Almie Alias, Flooding is an environmental hazard that occurs almost everywhere around the world. Analysis of streamflow data can give us important climatic information for flooding events. Persistent homology (PH), a new analysis tool in topological data analysis (TDA) offers a new way to look at the information in a data set using qualitative approach. PH uses topology to extract topological features such as connected components and cycles that exist in the data set. In this paper, we present a new approach for streamflow data analysis for flood detection by using PH. An analysis was conducted at Sungai Kelantan, Malaysia. The result shows that PH gives different pattern of topological features for dry and wet periods. In particular, there are more persistent topological features in the form of connected components and cycles in the wet periods compared to the dry periods. We observed that the time series of the distance measure corresponding to the evolution of the components is consistent with the time series of the streamflow data. As a conclusion, this study suggests that the time series of the distance measure corresponding to the evolution of the components can be used for flood detection at Sungai Kelantan, Malaysia. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022-07 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20249/1/22.pdf Syed Mohamad Sadiq Syed Musa, and Mohd Salmi Md Noorani, and Fatimah Abdul Razak, and Munira Ismail, and Mohd Almie Alias, (2022) Streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology. Sains Malaysiana, 51 (7). pp. 2211-2222. ISSN 0126-6039 https://www.ukm.my/jsm/malay_journals/jilid51bil7_2022/KandunganJilid51Bil7_2022.html
spellingShingle Syed Mohamad Sadiq Syed Musa,
Mohd Salmi Md Noorani,
Fatimah Abdul Razak,
Munira Ismail,
Mohd Almie Alias,
Streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology
title Streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology
title_full Streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology
title_fullStr Streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology
title_full_unstemmed Streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology
title_short Streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology
title_sort streamflow data analysis for flood detection using persistent homology
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20249/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20249/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20249/1/22.pdf