FloodHub; An Integrated Near-Real-Time Flood Monitoring System in support of the decision makers based on Modeling, Multi-source EO and Crowdsourced data
Abstract
The most frequent disaster is flood, corresponding to 43,4% of the total number of disasters, and affecting the largest number of persons worldwide: 45% of the population affected by disasters, that is 2 billion people (CRED, UNISDR, 2018). High accuracy flood monitoring systems are needed in order to provide support to the decision-making process of the relevant stakeholders in the direction of early warning, flood management, mitigation measures and disaster risk reduction towards disaster resilience, especially in the urban areas.
In this direction the Center of Earth Observation and Satellite Remote Sensing BEYOND of the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) develops the collaborative flood monitoring system FloodHub, also in the framework of the EuroGEO Disaster Resilience Action Group. FloodHub improves Near Real Time (NRT) flood monitoring and assessment of flood extent by assimilating flood modeling with the integration of multi-source data, integrating crowdsourced data, in-situ sensor data, satellite earth observation data, as well as advanced web-based technologies with innovative techniques.- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020AGUFMH203...03T
- Keywords:
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- 1817 Extreme events;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 1821 Floods;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 1847 Modeling;
- HYDROLOGY;
- 1873 Uncertainty assessment;
- HYDROLOGY