This pilot aims at assessing the flood risk in selected areas, its impact on urban areas and the associated risk for population. It will use Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 data and relevant processing chains to generate time-series of imagery and automatically detect changes within a given period. The output will be exposed through the MEEO (pilot coordinator) platform whose data cube technology will be enriched with additional relevant datasets to provide both citizens and experts with a Flood Risk & Impact Assessment dashboard based on indicators, time-series charts or forecasting maps. The objective is to have a smart organization of the heterogeneous relevant datasets that facilitates the analysis of the data available and, therefore, the monitoring activities over an AoI.
The current application (running in the SatCen GEO-DAMP platform) will be extended by incorporating Sentinel-2 change detection, enhancing its interoperability, expanding its functionality to cover other areas and periods.
The Char-Piya region (Bangladesh), which was used to validate current results, will also serve for validating the enhanced service that will allow the monitoring of the construction of settlements (i.e. Rohingya refugee camps) and the impact of floods during the Monsoon period.
MEEO, SatCen
European Union Satellite Centre (EU) Stakeholders in the field of Space and Security such as EU Member States, EU Agencies (e.g. Frontex, EMSA) and International Organisations (e.g. GEO, UN) NGOs and donors
The e-shape project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 820852