FloodHub 24/7 Real-Time Floods Monitoring service
Description
The main objectives of the FloodHub of BEYOND is to contribute by using satellite remote sensing to the establishment of flood risk management plans focused on prevention, protection and preparedness, to reduce and manage the risks to human health, the environment, cultural heritage, and economy.
Disaster Risk Response Stage
Mitigation
Preparedness
Preparedness
Category
Flood Extent Mapping
Temporal Use
None
Input Network
GEO
Input Network Member
EuroGEO Action Group on Disasters Resilience
Provider Organization
National Observatory of Athens
Point of Contact
Alexia Tsouni
E-mail
Geographic Domain
Local
Geographic Product Locations
Europe
Geographic Product Locations - Detailed
Producing Daily Global Coverage?
No
Globally Extensible
Yes
Product Delivery Latency
Near real time 5-15 minutes
Data Type
Optical and SAR
Associated Capacity Development Resources
None
Product Format
Flood extent and depth maps
Archived
Unknown
Tailored Service Available
Yes
License Type
Unknown
Spatial Extent
River basin
Spatial Scale
10 m
Caveats
Typical SAR technology limitations for flood mapping (urban areas, dense vegetation,...) and optical technology limitations (Clouds)
Frequency
Unknown
Overpass Latency
Unknown
Downlink Latency
Unknown
Processing Latency
Unknown
Impacted By Cloud Shadows
Unknown
Impacted By Terrain Shadows
Unknown
Status
Operational
Input By
Alexia Tsouni, NOA
Notes
FloodHub system is built around a fully scalable and transferable modular architecture that allows the near-real-time ingestion and assimilation of hydrometeorological observations measured at in-situ telemetric stations, satellite data, and crowdsourced data, in a multi-source data fusion concept.
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