I agree with the other two posts. You need to find out the exact source of the moisture. So, take a RH reading underneath your home in the crawl space and another inside your home on the first floor. Also take moisture meter readings of the underside of the wood subflooring and framing members ( joists, posts, beams, girders, trusses, etc ). If you can, get moisture meter readings of the face of the wood flooring and then deeper down, into the flooring. I would make sure the polyethylene vapor barrier is working correctly. All seams need to be overlapped by 12" and "sealed" by weighting the seams with rock, gravel, bricks, sand, whatever. Tape will not work or last. The vapor barrier should lap up the foundation walls by 4 to 6" and again be held in place by gravel or similar. I suspect that the earth under your home is very wet. Since it appears that you have little to no foundation vents, the RH built up under the house and got into the subflooring, increasing it's MC. From there, into the finished flooring, causing the cupping.
Once you have located the source of the moisture and eliminated it, it is time to allow everything to equalize and dry out. This will take months. It may take a year. Monthly moisture meter readings should be taken to check on progress. After the flooring has dried out as much as it can, then repairs can begin. Re-nail any loose boards, fill any gaps with the appropriate filler and if the cupping has gone down to acceptable, then simply re-coat the floors. You could have them re-sanded as well if needed. But not before they are fully dried out.
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