MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641085188 A) filed by Vellore Institute Of Technology, Chennai on July 11, 2026, for System And Method For Generating Urban Flood Vulnerability Index (ufvi) Over Region Of Interest.
Inventors include Kamal Jerome V; Afzal Ahamed Shaheena; S. Graceline Jasmine; and M. Vergin Raja Sarobin.
The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.
Abstract: The present disclosure provides geospatial processing system (102) and method (400) for generating Urban Flood Vulnerability Index (UFVI) over region of interest. The system (102) includes processors and non-transitory memory storing executable instructions. Processors are configured to acquire multi-source geospatial datasets and process acquired geospatial datasets to generate feature layers comprising first index corresponding to water index, second index corresponding to vegetation index, third index corresponding to built-up index, fourth layer corresponding to rainfall aggregation, and fifth layer corresponding to synthetic aperture radar (SAR) before/after flood-change layer representing temporal backscatter variation. Processors transform each feature layer into standardized numeric range to enable inter-layer comparability and generate multi-band geospatial dataset by stacking normalized feature layers. Further, processors compute UFVI by combining multi-band geospatial dataset based on predefined or dynamically determined weighting framework, and generate and classify spatially resolved UFVI map to classify region of interest into multiple flood vulnerability levels.
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