Assessing the impact of climate and land use change on flood vulnerability: a machine learning approach in coastal region of Tamil Nadu, India

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dc.contributor.authorAbijith, Devanantham
dc.contributor.authorSaravanan, Subbarayan
dc.contributor.authorParthasarathy K.S.S.
dc.contributor.authorReddy, Nagireddy Masthan
dc.contributor.authorNiraimathi, Janardhanam
dc.contributor.authorBindajam, Ahmed Ali
dc.contributor.authorMallick, Javed
dc.contributor.authorAlharbi, Maged Muteb
dc.contributor.authorAbdo, Hazem Ghassan
dc.date.accessioned2026-09-17T09:49:24Z
dc.date.available2026-09-17T09:49:24Z
dc.date.issued2025-01-27
dc.description.abstractFlooding and other natural disasters threaten human life and property worldwide. They can cause significant damage to infrastructure and disrupt economies. Tamil Nadu coast is severely prone to flooding due to land use and climate changes. This research applies geospatial tools and machine learning to improve flood susceptibility mapping across the Tamil Nadu coast in India, using projections of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes under current and future climate change scenarios. To identify flooded areas, the study utilised Google Earth Engine (GEE), Sentinel-1 data, and 12 geospatial datasets from multiple sources. A random forest algorithm was used for LULC change and flood susceptibility mapping. The LULC data are classified for the years 2000, 2010, and 2020, and from the classified data, the LULC for years 2030, 2040, and 2050 are projected for the study. Four future climate scenarios (SSP 126, 245, 370, and 585) were used for the average annual precipitation from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6). The results showed that the random forest model performed better in classifying LULC and identifying flood-prone areas. From the results, it has been depicted that the risk of flooding will increase across all scenarios over the period of 2000–2100, with some decadal fluctuations. A significant outcome indicates that the percentage of the area transitioning to moderate and very high flood risk consistently rises across all future projections. This study presents a viable method for flood susceptibility mapping based on different climate change scenarios and yields estimates of flood risk, which can provide valuable insights for managing flood risks. © The Author(s) 2025.
dc.identifier.issn21964092
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1186/s40562-025-00377-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://nitt.ndl.gov.in/handle/123456789/277
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
dc.relation.ispartofseriesGeoscience Letters; Vol. 12/ No. 1/ Art. 1
dc.titleAssessing the impact of climate and land use change on flood vulnerability: a machine learning approach in coastal region of Tamil Nadu, India
dc.typeArticle
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