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LSU Professor Uses AI/ML To Predict Coastal Flooding

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Tuesday, January 18, 2022

These coastal communities and infrastructure are especially vulnerable to wind and flooding due to tropical storms, hurricanes, and heavy rainfall.

Key Points: 
  • These coastal communities and infrastructure are especially vulnerable to wind and flooding due to tropical storms, hurricanes, and heavy rainfall.
  • With the aid of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) techniques, LSU School of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering Adjunct Professor Hartmut Kaiser is working to improve their flood preparedness and mitigation capabilities.
  • The well-being of all Americans depends on the environmental integrity and sustainable productivity of the ocean, our coasts and coastal watersheds, Kaiser said.
  • The current coastal flooding predictive capability is limited by the inadequate representation of coastal processes in the ESM, especially as they relate to coastal hazards, and by a lack of automated workflow for facilitating the two-way information transfer between experimentalists/domain experts and computational scientists.