FloodHub 24/7 Real-Time Floods Monitoring service
| Disaster Risk Response Stage |
Forecasting
Risk |
|---|---|
| Category | Flood Extent Mapping |
| 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: |  |
| Source | |
| Geographic Domain |
Local |
| Geographic Product Locations |
Europe |
| Geographic Product Locations - Detailed | |
| Producing Daily Global Coverage? | False |
| Globally Extensible | True |
| 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 | None |
| Tailored Service Available | True |
| License Type | Proprietary with free and open access to all the relevant stakeholders. |
| 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 | None |
| Overpass Latency | None |
| Downlink Latency | None |
| Processing Latency | None |
| Impacted By Cloud Shadows | None |
| Impacted By Terrain Shadows | None |
| 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. |