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The public dataset Sen1Floods11 recently released by the Cloud to Street is one example of ongoing beneficial initiatives to employ deep learning for flood detection with synthetic aperture radar. The present study used this dataset to improve flood detection using well-known segmentation architectures, such as SegNet and UNet, as networks. In addition, this study provided a deeper understanding of which set of polarized band combination is more suitable for distinguishing permanent water, as well as flooded areas from the SAR image. The overall performance of the models with various kinds of labels and a combination of bands to detect all surface water areas were also assessed. Finally, the trained models were tested on a completely different location at Kerala, India, during the 2018 flood for verifying their performance in the real-world situation of a flood event outside of the given test set in the dataset. The results prove that trained models can be used as off-the-shelf models to achieve an intersection over union (IoU) as high as 0.88 in comparison with optical images. The omission and commission error were less than 6%. However, the most important result is that the processing time for the whole satellite image was less than 1 min. This will help significantly for providing analysis and near-real-time flood mapping services to first responder organizations during flooding disasters.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs13122334","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,14]],"date-time":"2021-06-14T22:25:46Z","timestamp":1623709546000},"page":"2334","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":73,"title":["Near-Real-Time Flood Mapping Using Off-the-Shelf Models with SAR Imagery and Deep Learning"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3453-3158","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Vaibhav","family":"Katiyar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1, Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan"},{"name":"Center for Research and Application of Satellite Remote Sensing, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1, Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan"}]},{"given":"Nopphawan","family":"Tamkuan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1, Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan"},{"name":"Center for Research and Application of Satellite Remote Sensing, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1, Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan"}]},{"given":"Masahiko","family":"Nagai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1, Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan"},{"name":"Center for Research and Application of Satellite Remote Sensing, Yamaguchi University, 2-16-1, Tokiwadai, Ube, Yamaguchi 755-8611, Japan"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,6,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"(2021, January 16). 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