Geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) in the integrated hydrological and fluvial systems modeling: review of current applications and trends

This paper reviews the current GeoAI and machine learning applications in hydrological and hydraulic modeling, hydrological optimization problems, water quality modeling, and fluvial geomorphic and morphodynamic mapping. GeoAI effectively harnesses the vast amount of spatial and non-spatial data col...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Gonzales Inca, Carlos, Calle Navarro, Mikel, Croghan, Danny, Torabi Haghighi, Ali, Marttila, Hannu, Silander, Jari, Alho, Petteri
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/133743
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/133743
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:556.53
GeoAI
Artificial intelligence
Machine learning
Hydrological
Hydraulic
Fluvial
Water quality
Geomorphic
Modeling
Hidrología
2508.14 Aguas Superficiales
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Sumario:This paper reviews the current GeoAI and machine learning applications in hydrological and hydraulic modeling, hydrological optimization problems, water quality modeling, and fluvial geomorphic and morphodynamic mapping. GeoAI effectively harnesses the vast amount of spatial and non-spatial data collected with the new automatic technologies. The fast development of GeoAI provides multiple methods and techniques, although it also makes comparisons between different methods challenging. Overall, selecting a particular GeoAI method depends on the application’s objective, data availability, and user expertise. GeoAI has shown advantages in non-linear modeling, computational efficiency, integration of multiple data sources, high accurate prediction capability, and the unraveling of new hydrological patterns and processes. A major drawback in most GeoAI models is the adequate model setting and low physical interpretability, explainability, and model generalization. The most recent research on hydrological GeoAI has focused on integrating the physical-based models’ principles with the GeoAI methods and on the progress towards autonomous prediction and forecasting systems.