Historical Flood Mapping Combining Radar Remote Sensing and Google Engine Technologies for The Kon and Ky Lo River Basin, South Center Coast Vietnam

Climate change has led to increasingly serious flooding in many regions around the world, including Vietnam. The Kon and Ky Lo river basins in Binh Dinh and Phu Yen provinces, Vietnam, have experienced increasingly serious flooding in recent years, which has caused damage to property and people living in the area. This basin lacks the availability of historical flood maps; flood information is mainly in the form of statistical information on people's damage situations.

Floods in Vietnam often appear in the last months of the year, combined with storms and heavy rain, leading to more serious flooding. During such periods of heavy rain, measuring and monitoring the flood situation is very difficult. Currently, with the development of the European Space Agency's (ESA) radar Sentinel-1 remote sensing technology, flood monitoring has become more convenient compared to the use of optical remote sensing technology. Moreover, combined with Google Engine (GE) technology, mapping historical floods became easier.

In this study, we applied the Sentinel-1 satellite images on the GE platform combined with SRTM digital elevation model data to conduct flood mapping for the large floods of 2016 and 2021 along the Kon and Ky Lo rivers. These historical flood maps will be used on the basis of flood risk assessment and as a basis for assessing the accuracy of future hydrological-hydraulic flood simulation models. In addition, the study also delineated areas that are frequently flooded to help local authorities more easily manage disasters and have better response solutions in the future, in order to limit the risk of damage to people in areas affected by flooding.