Affiliation:
1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milan, Italy
Abstract
With the increase in climate-change-related hazardous events alongside population concentration in urban centres, it is important to provide resilient cities with tools for understanding and eventually preparing for such events. Machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques have increasingly been employed to model susceptibility of hazardous events. This study consists of a systematic review of the ML/DL techniques applied to model the susceptibility of air pollution, urban heat islands, floods, and landslides, with the aim of providing a comprehensive source of reference both for techniques and modelling approaches. A total of 1454 articles published between 2020 and 2023 were systematically selected from the Scopus and Web of Science search engines based on search queries and selection criteria. ML/DL techniques were extracted from the selected articles and categorised using ad hoc classification. Consequently, a general approach for modelling the susceptibility of hazardous events was consolidated, covering the data preprocessing, feature selection, modelling, model interpretation, and susceptibility map validation, along with examples of related global/continental data. The most frequently employed techniques across various hazards include random forest, artificial neural networks, and support vector machines. This review also provides, per hazard, the definition, data requirements, and insights into the ML/DL techniques used, including examples of both state-of-the-art and novel modelling approaches.
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