Application of flood monitoring from satellite for insurances

Bach, Heike; Appel, Franziska; Fellah, K.; Fraipont, P. De

doi:10.1109/igarss.2005.1526104

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“…The space-based SAR images have also been used for a wide number of applications like the flood shelter suitability mapping (Uddin et al 2021), surveillance of water and vector borne diseases (Kalluri et al 2007;Kaya et al 2004), flood risk insurance (Bach et al 2005;Amarnath et al 2019), crop loss assessment (Rahman and Di 2020;Shrestha et al 2018), flood damage survey and assessment (Pulvirenti et al 2014), and developing of flood inundation libraries (Bhatt et al 2017a, b).…”

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Application of Active Space-Borne Microwave Remote Sensing in Flood Hazard Management

Bhatt

Thakur

Singh

et al. 2021

Water Science and Technology Library

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Globally, floods are attributed to be one of the leading natural hazards responsible for recurrent major economic losses, population affected, and mortality. The rapid assessment of flood hazard dynamics at regional scale during flood crisis is one of the few elements which is required by the agencies involved on ground for relief and rescue operations. Due to the weather-independent and day and night acquisition capability offered through microwave sensors, space-borne remote sensing for flood hazard management has undergone a paradigm change. Today, globally data from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has emerged as invaluable source for monitoring flood hazard. From demonstrating the proof of concept in its initial launch campaigns, the SAR technology has matured to be competent enough to provide operational support for major flood disasters. In recent times, the continuously streaming of free SAR datasets from Sentinel-1 mission and together with emergence of advanced cloudbased computing and processing technologies like the Google Earth Engine (GEE), automated, and quasi-real-time flood mapping services have evolved. The future missions like the NISAR in conjunction with Sentinel-1 C-band data will help in providing more accurate and faster response during flood crisis and see application of SAR data grow multi-fold in coming years for flood hazard mitigation. This chapter attempts to provide a broad overview of the active microwave remote sensing for flood hazard studies. The first part of the chapter discusses about the interaction of the SAR signal for flooding in open, vegetated, and urbanized areas, followed by the role of the sensor parameters like the wavelength, polarization, and incidence angle on the backscattering of SAR signal. The latter half of the chapter discusses about the flood mapping techniques, SAR satellite mission contributing to flood hazard mapping, various applications of SAR derived flood hazard information, the Indian nationwide near-real-time (NRT) flood hazard mapping under ISRO DMS program, and the emergence of Web-based cloud computing techniques and open-source data policies revolutionizing the flood hazard mitigation activities.

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Section: Application Of Sar-derived Flood Hazard Informationmentioning

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Application of Active Space-Borne Microwave Remote Sensing in Flood Hazard Management

Bhatt

Thakur

Singh

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“…Long-term remote sensing data records are also applied in the insurance industry for assessment of damage from fire [94,95], flood [96], hail [97], and drought [98]. By carefully reviewing remote sensing applications for the insurance industry, Leeuw et al [99] suggest remote sensing community should work more closely with insurance experts to promote more remote sensing application in insurance business.…”

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Satellite Climate Data Records: Development, Applications, and Societal Benefits

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This review paper discusses how to develop, produce, sustain, and serve satellite climate data records (CDRs) in the context of transitioning research to operation (R2O). Requirements and critical procedures of producing various CDRs, including Fundamental CDRs (FCDRs), Thematic CDRs (TCDRs), Interim CDRs (ICDRs), and climate information records (CIRs) are discussed in detail, including radiance/reflectance and the essential climate variables (ECVs) of land, ocean, and atmosphere. Major international CDR initiatives, programs, and projects are summarized. Societal benefits of CDRs in various user sectors, including Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Energy, Heath, Water, Transportation, and Tourism are also briefly discussed. The challenges and opportunities for CDR development, production and service are also addressed. It is essential to maintain credible CDR products by allowing free access to products and keeping the production process transparent by making source code and documentation available with the dataset.

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“…Several publications describe the potential and use of remote sensing in establishing a spatial stratification of flood risk [19,20]. Flood damage in Europe accounts for 75 percent of all insurance payments attributable to natural disasters [21]. For example, the 2002 flood damage in Central and Eastern Europe led to claims of several billion Euros [20] and insurers increasingly use geo-spatial information to assess flood risk in order to realistically price their insurance products.…”

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The Potential and Uptake of Remote Sensing in Insurance: A Review

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Global insurance markets are vast and diverse, and may offer many opportunities for remote sensing. To date, however, few operational applications of remote sensing for insurance exist. Papers claiming potential application of remote sensing typically stress the technical possibilities, without considering its contribution to customer value for the insured OPEN ACCESS Remote Sens. 2014, 6 10889 or to the profitability of the insurance industry. Based on a systematic search of available literature, this review investigates the potential and actual support of remote sensing to the insurance industry. The review reveals that research on remote sensing in classical claim-based insurance described in the literature revolve around crop damage and flood and fire risk assessment. Surprisingly, the use of remote sensing in claim-based insurance appears to be instigated by government rather than the insurance industry. In contrast, insurance companies are offering various index insurance products that are based on remote sensing. For example, remotely sensed index insurance for rangelands and livestock are operational, while various applications in crop index insurance are being considered or under development. The paper discusses these differences and concludes that there is particular scope for application of remote sensing by the insurance industry in index insurance because (1) indices can be constructed that correlate well with what is insured; (2) these indices can be delivered at low cost; and (3) it opens up new markets that are not served by claim-based insurance. The paper finally suggests that limited adoption of remote sensing in insurance results from a lack of mutual understanding and calls for greater cooperation between the insurance industry and the remote sensing community.

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Application of flood monitoring from satellite for insurances

Cited by 12 publications

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Application of Active Space-Borne Microwave Remote Sensing in Flood Hazard Management

Application of Active Space-Borne Microwave Remote Sensing in Flood Hazard Management

Satellite Climate Data Records: Development, Applications, and Societal Benefits

The Potential and Uptake of Remote Sensing in Insurance: A Review

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