Modern aspects of the use of artificial intelligence for predicting natural disasters on the rivers of the Russian Federation (using the example of the Amur River)

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Among all observed natural disasters, water-related disasters are the most frequent and pose a serious threat to people and socio-economic development. River floods are the most relevant for the Russian Federation, and the importance of flood control, particularly in the Far East, was repeatedly stressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The quality of performance of various artificial intelligence methods on the task of predicting river floods in the Amur River basin was investigated. The uniqueness of the research lies in the fact that similar studies have not previously been conducted for this river. The main task of the work was the subsequent practical application of the obtained results in flood forecasting and risk management systems. For this purpose, the best method was searched among widely used methods on the market, which have a rich choice of auxiliary solutions: gradient tree binning, linear regression without regularisation and neural networks. The study design focus on achieving maximum reproducibility of the results. The gradient boosting over the trees in the domestic implementation of CatBoost showed the highest quality. The results of this work can be extrapolated to other rivers comparable in both area and volume of data collected.

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Nikita E. Aleksandrov

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Email: 1042210208@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8183-0257

Ph.D student, Department of Innovation Management in Industries, Academy of Engineering

6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation

Dmitry N. Ermakov

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University); Polyus Scientific Research Institute

Email: ermakov-dn@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0811-0058

Dr. of Political Sciences, Dr. of Economics, Ph.D of Historical Sciences, Professor, Department of Innovation Management in Industries, Academy of Engineering

6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation

Alla E. Brom

Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Email: allabrom@bmstu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3633-1197

Dr. of Economics, Professor of the Department of Industrial Logistics, Faculty of Engineering Business and Management

5 2-ya Baumanskaya St, bldg 1, Moscow, 105005, Russian Federation

Irina N. Omelchenko

Bauman Moscow State Technical University

Email: logistic@ibm.bmsru.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4707-1079

Dr. of Technical Sciences, Dr. of Economics, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering Business and Management

5 2-ya Baumanskaya St, bldg 1, Moscow, 105005, Russian Federation

Sergey V. Shkodinsky

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University); Moscow State Regional University

Author for correspondence.
Email: sh-serg@bk.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5853-3585

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Economic and Financial Education, Moscow State Regional University; Professor of the Department of Innovation Management in Industries, Academy of Engineering, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

24 Very Voloshinoy St, Mytishi, 141014, Russian Federation; 6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation

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