Is Clustering Time-Series Water Depth Useful? An Exploratory Study for Flooding Detection in Urban Drainage Systems

Water

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Jiada Li¹  Daniyal Hassan¹  Simon Brewer²  Robert Sitzenfrei³ 

[1] Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Utah, 201 Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA;

[2] Geography Department, University of Utah, 201 Presidents Circle, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA;

[3] Unit of Environmental Engineering, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria;

关键词: smart stormwater;    machine learning;    cluster analysis;    data science;    flooding detection;   

DOI  :  10.3390/w12092433

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

As sensor measurements emerge in urban water systems, data-driven unsupervised machine learning algorithms have drawn tremendous interest in event detection and hydraulic water level and flow prediction recently. However, most of them are applied in water distribution systems and few studies consider using unsupervised cluster analysis to group the time-series hydraulic-hydrologic data in stormwater urban drainage systems. To improve the understanding of how cluster analysis contributes to flooding location detection, this study compared the performance of K-means clustering, agglomerative clustering, and spectral clustering in uncovering time-series water depth dissimilarity. In this work, the water depth datasets are simulated by an urban drainage model and then formatted for a clustering problem. Three standard performance evaluation metrics, namely the silhouette coefficient index, Calinski–Harabasz index, and Davies–Bouldin index are employed to assess the clustering performance in flooding prediction under various storms. The results show that silhouette coefficient index and Davies–Bouldin index are more suitable for assessing the performance of K-means and agglomerative clustering, while the Calinski–Harabasz index only works for spectral clustering, indicating these clustering algorithms are metric-dependent flooding predictors. The results also reveal that the agglomerative clustering performs better in forecasting short-duration events while K-means and spectral clustering behave better in predicting long-duration floods. The findings of these investigations can be employed in urban stormwater flood detection at the specific junction-level sites by using the occurrence of anomalous changes in water level in correlated clusters as flood early warning for the local neighborhoods.

【 授权许可】

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