Enhancing Louisiana's Flood Resilience Through Advanced Modeling and Monitoring Techniques
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a brief outline of the talk would be as follows:
- How flooding and extreme events affect Louisiana.
- The standard practices in flood modeling and monitoring.
- Summary of my work in improving current flood modeling, monitoring, and forecasting practices including using satellite and drone imagery, Machine Learning (ML), and Geographical Information Systems (GIS).
- Finally, a brief summary of future work.
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- Date: 28 Sep 2023
- Time: 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
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Speakers
Dr. Mohamed ElSaadani of University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Topic:
Enhancing Louisiana's Flood Resilience Through Advanced Modeling and Monitoring Techniques
Biography:
Dr. Mohamed ElSaadani is a senior research engineer with the Institute for Coastal and Water Research (ICaWR) and the Louisiana Watershed Flood Center at UL Lafayette. He is also an Assistant Research Professor with the Civil Engineering Department at UL Lafayette. Dr. ElSaadani obtained his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering (Hydrology and Water Resources) from the University of Iowa in 2017. His main research interests include hydrologic and hydraulic modeling, hydrometeorology, geospatial analysis, and remote sensing and Machine Learning (ML) applications in hydrology.