ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book outlines concept ideas, overviews general objectives, and formulates main research questions related to the dissertation. It reviews fundamental backgrounds of urban flood modelling. The book also reviews basic backgrounds of conventional top-view light detection and ranging (LiDAR) surveys. It introduces side-view structure from motion (SfM) surveys and explores the key components of urban features, which can be detected and extracted from side-view SfM topographic data. The book implements new multi-source view (MSV) topographic data as input for simulating a real flood event. It explores the use of flood watermarks extracted from side-view SfM data. The book further provides outlooks of multi-view surveys and their applications for enhancing urban flood simulation. It explores the advances in parallel computing and large improvements in urban flood models.
