NOAA LEO/GEO Flood Mapping

Disaster Risk Response Stage	Response Risk
Category	Flood Extent Mapping
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/ (available from Oct 2019 onward)
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?	True
Globally Extensible	True
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	True
Tailored Service Available	None
License Type	Open Source
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	None
Impacted By Terrain Shadows	None
Status	Operational
Input By	John Murray, NASA Applied Sciences
Notes	Variable down-scaling w/ DEM default 30m currently in development