An Efficient Machine Learning Framework for Flood Forecasting
摘要
Floods, a significant natural disaster which has an impact on the whole world present major risks to ecosystems and humans, particularly in semi-arid areas with variable rainfall patterns. With the help of ICRISAT’s historical meteorological data and machine learning algorithms, this study has developed a customized flood prediction model for use. After evaluating and contrasting various models, including the proposed model Stacked Gradient Boosting with Random Forest (SGB-RAF), KNN, Decision Tree, Random Forest, and Linear Regression, it shows that SGB-RAF has the highest R2 score and lowest RMSE comparatively to other models. While other enhancements such as Ridge Regression and polynomial feature creation were studied, SGB-RAF remained effective. Overall, this study highlights how machine learning may improve flood prediction accuracy, which is important for disaster management and for improving the semi-arid region’s adaptability to climatic variability.