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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Conrad M Albrecht, White Plains, NY (US);
Marcus Oliver Freitag, Pleasantville, NY (US);
Siyuan Lu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Hendrik F. Hamann, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In an approach for efficient flood water analysis from spatio-temporal data fusion and statistics, a processor classifies regular waters by using cartographic data in a first location. A processor generates a water stream network including a watershed based on elevation data. A processor performs statistical analysis of spectral information from a multi-spectral satellite imagery over water bodies including the regular waters and flood waters. A processor correlates the spectral statistics of the multi-spectral satellite imagery to kinetic energy of the flood waters using machine learning techniques and physical modeling. A processor builds a learning model based on the correlation between the spectral statistics and the flood waters with the kinetic energy. A processor estimates kinetic energy of flood waters in a second location using the learning model. A processor evaluates a flooding risk for the second location based on the estimated flood waters kinetic energy.