#FotoVorschlag: Typisch für deine Stadt/Region // Typical for your city/region

Hmmm. Gar nicht so einfach. Ziemlich typisch für meine Heimatregion, also das Gebiet Mittlere Elbe zwischen Magdeburg und Dessau, sind die Auenlandschaften. Ob Elbe, Mulde oder Ehle, wir haben ausgedehnte Überflutungsflächen, die zwar bei der jetzt eher typischen Trockenheit nicht oft zum Einsatz kommen, aber Städte wie Magdeburg schon öfter vor Hochwasser gerettet haben. Unser #Umflutkanal in Biederitz stand z. B. zuletzt im Winter 2023/2024 unter Wasser, als das Pretziener Wehr gezogen wurde. Ansonsten sagen sich hier Fuchs und Reh gute Nacht – oder auch Biber und #Storch. Das erste Storchenpaar ist letzte Woche nach Biederitz zurückgekehrt!
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Hmmm. This is quite a tricky one. I'd say the #floodplains are very typical of my region, the Middle Elbe, which lies between the cities of Magdeburg and Dessau. Along rivers like the Elbe, Mulde, and Ehle, we have vast water meadows that occasionally flood to protect cities such as Magdeburg. While it has been rather dry in recent years, these floodplains still play a crucial role. This one in #Biederitz, for example, was last flooded in the winter of 2023/2024 to shield Magdeburg and other towns from Elbe flooding. Most of the time though, these #meadows offer abundant wildlife, including foxes, roe deer, beavers, and #storks. The first breeding pair of white storks returned to Biederitz just last week!


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My old photo 2015-2017

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The Federal Ministry for the Environment has launched a new 59‑million‑euro program to restore the floodplains of smaller rivers. Environment Minister Carsten S... https://news.osna.fm/?p=32921 | #news #amid #drought #floodplain #germany

Conceptualizing River Floodplains
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF005681 <-- shared paper/commentary
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"PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY: River floodplains are integrative ecosystems in which diverse processes operate together to maintain river health. Floodplains are as critical to river health as the channel itself, yet floodplains lack the legal protections afforded to river channels in many countries.
KEY POINTS
• A river floodplain is an integrative physical, chemical, biological system and a key component of a river corridor
• Contemporary societal perceptions and regulatory frameworks do not reflect this scientific consensus...”
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And finally there was fog on the waters of the flood plain at Yolo Bypass and it was impossible to tell when the waters stopped and the sky began. Please excuse potato quality photo taken from moving vehicle.
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Worth noting for #GoogleMaps users... It has been clear to me for some time that #Google is using machine learning algorithms (sometimes called "AI") to adjust boundaries of geographic features. I assume they run an #ML model over satellite photos to do this. Here's a example of it failing, badly. The first picture attached is a Google Map of an urban creek in my town, with a street just north of it. Note how Google shows the creek not going anywhere near the street. The second picture is a topographic map of the same area. Notice how the creek ACTUALLY goes much farther north than Google depicts. For creeks and bodies of water I've noticed this most often happens where there is an adjacent #FloodPlain that the creek spills into on occasion. Clearly Google's algorithm is noticing water during flood conditions, or breaks in the tree line, and "learning" that the creek has moved. (In their defense, it is quite unusual that this urban creek passes directly under an office building parking deck, which probably also played a part. But why use ML to do this stuff when #topographic data exists?) #AIFails #AIFailures

Where the rising river met the bank in Launceston.

Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.

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