Towards Operational Flood Monitoring in Flanders Using Sentinel-1

As floods pose an increasing threat to our society, insights into their occurrence and dynamics are of major importance for emergency relief, damage assessment, the optimization of predictive models, and spatial planning. Due to their capability of providing synoptic observations independent of cloud cover and daylight, synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) sensors are an invaluable tool for flood mapping and monitoring. In this study, the potential of SAR, and more specifically Sentinel-1, for automated flood monitoring in Flanders is assessed. Its capability to detect floods with varying characteri... Mehr ...