GloFAS Global Flood Monitoring

In 2021, a new operational, near real-time global flood monitoring (GFM) was integrated into GloFAS. The GFM product is part of the EU’s Copernicus Emergency Management Service and is operated by EODC. The new GFM provides a continuous monitoring of floods worldwide by immediately processing and analyzing all incoming Copernicus Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite data. Being a fully automated system, one of the strengths of the GFM is the high timeliness of its products. Secondly, the implementation of three independently developed state-of-the-art satellite flood mapping algorithms, underpins the robustness and high quality of the derived flood and water extent maps.