NOAA LEO/GEO Flood Mapping

Description
The Geostationary and JPSS Flood map product is developed by George Mason University and the products are processed in near real time at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies
Disaster Risk Response Stage
Preparedness
Response
Category
Flood Extent Mapping
Temporal Use
Current observation Retrospective analysis
Input Network
CEOS
GEO
Input Network Member
NASA
Provider Organization
NOAA CIMSS, University of Wisconsin, GMU
Point of Contact
William Straka, Sanmei Li
E-mail
Source
https://jpssflood.gmu.edu/ 1-day VIIRS composite: https://noaa-jpss.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#JPSS_Blended_Products/VFM_1day_GLB/ 5-day VIIRS composite: https://noaa-jpss.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#JPSS_Blended_Products/VFM_5day_GLB/
Geographic Domain
Global
Geographic Product Locations
Global
Geographic Product Locations - Detailed
Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola
Anguilla
Antarctica
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Armenia
Aruba
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Bahamas
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Barbados
Belarus
Belgium
Belize
Benin
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana
Bouvet Island
Brazil
British Indian Ocean Territory
Brunei
Bulgaria
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cabo Verde
Cambodia
Cameroon
Canada
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic
Chad
Chile
China
Christmas Island
Cocos (Keeling) Islands
Colombia
Comoros
Congo
Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
Cook Islands
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Curaçao
Cyprus
Czechia
Côte d'Ivoire
Denmark
Djibouti
Dominica
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Eswatini
Ethiopia
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
Faroe Islands
Fiji
Finland
France
French Guiana
French Polynesia
French Southern Territories
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Gibraltar
Greece
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala
Guernsey
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Holy See
Honduras
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Isle of Man
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jersey
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macao
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Mali
Malta
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania
Mauritius
Mayotte
Mexico
Micronesia (Federated States of)
Moldova
Monaco
Mongolia
Montenegro
Montserrat
Morocco
Mozambique
Myanmar
Namibia
Nauru
Nepal
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Niue
Norfolk Island
North Korea
North Macedonia
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestine, State of
Panama
Papua New Guinea
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Pitcairn
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Réunion
Saint Barthélemy
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Saint Lucia
Saint Martin (French part)
Saint Pierre and Miquelon
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Samoa
San Marino
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Serbia
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Singapore
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
Slovakia
Slovenia
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
South Korea
South Sudan
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Suriname
Svalbard and Jan Mayen
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tokelau
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Turks and Caicos Islands
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
United States Minor Outlying Islands
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Virgin Islands (British)
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
Wallis and Futuna
Western Sahara
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
Åland Islands
Producing Daily Global Coverage?
Yes
Globally Extensible
Yes
Product Delivery Latency
Daily (Joint, 1-day and 5-day composites) Hourly (ABI/AHI only ) 30 min (Direct Broadcast data)
Data Type
Optical
Associated Capacity Development Resources
None
Product Format
GeoTIFF, Shapefile, Web
Archived
Yes
Tailored Service Available
Unknown
License Type
Unknown
Spatial Extent
Land surfaces from 60S to 75N
Spatial Scale
375m/30m (VIIRS and VIIRS downscaled) 1km (ABI/AHI) 375m/1km (Joint Product)
Caveats
Agricultural-related flooding: Some flooding water shown in the VIIRS flood maps may not be any hazardrelated flooding, but from agriculture-related activities such as rice paddy planting and aquaculture. ● Tides and Marsh lands: In some regions especially coastal areas, consistent flooding may be detected in the flood maps. These floods are mostly caused by the tides or occur over marsh lands, which do not pose any social impact. ● Water reference map: The current water reference map we use for global flood mapping is from global water bodies of ESA CCI and MODIS global water mask (MOD44W Version 006). It might not reflect the new reservoirs and other hydraulic projects built after 2015, which may take some normal water as flooding water. ● Solar Eclipses: For granules that are flagged as an “eclipse”, the flood product will not be produced.
Frequency
VIIRS - 2x per day (1 for N20, 1 for NPP) ABI/AHI - hourly composites utilize FD data every 10 minutes Joint, daily, 5-day products - produced 1x per day
Overpass Latency
DB/ABI GRB - 10min 90/120 min - VIIRS granuels
Downlink Latency
DB/ABI GRB - 10min 90/120 min - VIIRS granuels
Processing Latency
5min/granule or less
Impacted By Cloud Shadows
Unknown
Impacted By Terrain Shadows
Unknown
Status
Operational
Input By
John Murray, NASA Applied Sciences
Notes
Variable down-scaling w/ DEM default 30m currently in development 1-day VIIRS composite: https://noaa-jpss.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#JPSS_Blended_Products/VFM_1day_GLB/ 5-day VIIRS composite: https://noaa-jpss.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#JPSS_Blended_Products/VFM_5day_GLB/
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