Staff
Joao Paulo Leitao
About Me
Senior researcher (tenured)
Systems Transformation and Intelligent Network Operations, Department of Urban Water Management
Research interests
My research involves the development of new methods to improve urban hydrology/ hydraulic modelling accuracy, taking advantage of newly available data resources: (i) identify urban water systems features (e.g. sewer inlets and manholes) from aerial imagery obtained using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and (ii) estimate flow velocity and surface water depth from videos acquired from urban surveillance cameras and social media images, respectively.
I am also interested in the development of urban flood models to more realistically assess urban flood risk. This focus on the improvement of one-dimensional (1D) overland flow models and development of novel data-driven flood models. The ultimate goal is to investigate fast but accurate models targeted to be used in real-time flood forecasting applications.
In addition, I am also investigating Infrastructure Asset Management methods aiming at improving the industry’s perennial need for more efficient infrastructure, geared to reducing costs and risks while increasing its performance and flexibility.
Recent publications
Peleg, N., Ban, N., Gibson, M.J., Chen, A.S., Paschalis, A., Burlando, P., Leitão, J.P. (2022). Mapping storm spatial profiles for flood impact assessments. Advances in Water Resources, 166, 104258. doi: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2022.104258
Chaudhary, P., Leitão, J.P., D’Aronco, S., Perraudin, N., Obozinski, G., Perez-Cruz, F., Schindler, K., Wegner, J.D., Russo, S. (2022). Flood Uncertainty Estimation using Deep Ensembles. Water, 14, 2980. doi: 10.3390/w14192980
Guo, Z., Moosavi, V., Leitão, J.P. (2022). Data-driven rapid flood prediction mapping with catchment generalizability. Journal of Hydrology, 609, 127726. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2022.127726
Harpaz, C., Russo, S., Leitão, J.P., Penn, R. (2022). Potential of supervised machine learn-ing algorithms for estimating the impact of water efficient scenarios on solids accumulation in sewers. Water Research, 216, 118247. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118247
Figueroa, A., Hadengue, B., Leitão, J.P., Rieckermann, J., Blumensaat, F. (2021). A distributed heat transfer model for thermal-hydraulic analyses in sewer networks. Water Research, 204, 117649. doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2021.117649
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Address
| E-Mail: | joaopaulo.leitao@cluttereawag.ch |
| Phone: | +41 58 765 6714 |
| Fax: | +41 58 765 5802 |
| Address: | Eawag
Überlandstrasse 133 8600 Dübendorf |
| Office: | BU B09 |
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Focalpoints
Urban flood modelling and assessment
Image-based data sources for flood measurement
Urban water infrastructure management