Global Flood Monitoring

Disaster Risk Response Stage
Response
Category Flood Extent Mapping
Input Network
CEOS
Input Network Member
WGCapD
Provider Organization: European Commission / Copernicus EMS
Point of Contact: Peter Salamon
E-mail:
Source
Geographic Domain Global
Geographic Product Locations Global
Geographic Product Locations - Detailed
None
Producing Daily Global Coverage? None
Globally Extensible None
Product Delivery Latency Maximum 8 hours after image sensing
Data Type SAR (Sentinel 1 a/b)
Associated Capacity Development Resources None
Product Format WMS-T, GeoTIFF
Archived True
Tailored Service Available True
License Type None
Spatial Extent Global
Spatial Scale 20m
Caveats Typical SAR technology limitations for flood mapping (urban areas, dense vegetation,...)
Frequency See Sentinel 1 Observatyion scenario (https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-1/observation-scenario )
Overpass Latency See Sentinel 1 Observatyion scenario (https://sentinel.esa.int/web/sentinel/missions/sentinel-1/observation-scenario )
Downlink Latency < 5 hours
Processing Latency < 3 hours
Impacted By Cloud Shadows False
Impacted By Terrain Shadows None
Status Operational
Input By Peter Salamon, European Commission , Joint Research Center
Notes