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Note: this section provides a concise description of the products provided by the GFMS.
For a more comprehensive documentation the reader is referred to the GFMS Products Description Document.

The GFMS makes available a full set of NRT flood mapping-related products as listed below:

Products		Data format
1. S-1 Observed Flood Extent	Flooded areas mapped as the difference between S-1 observed water extent and the reference water mask.	raster (Geotiff) and vector(shapefile)
2. S-1 Observed Water Extent	Open and calm water mapped using S-1 SAR backscatter intensity.	raster (Geotiff) and vector(shapefile)
3. S-1 Reference Water Mask	Normal (i.e. permanent, seasonal) water mapped using S-1 SAR backscatter intensity.	raster (Geotiff) and vector(shapefile)
4. Exclusion Mask	Unclassified areas	raster (Geotiff)
5. Uncertainty Values	Estimated uncertainty of flood mapping, for all areas outside exclusion mask	raster (Geotiff)
6. Advisory Flags	Flags indicating potential reduced quality of flood mapping, due to prevailing environmental conditions (e.g. wind, ice, snow, dry soil), or degraded input data quality due to signal interference from other SAR missions (e.g. Radarsat)	raster (Geotiff)
7. Sentinel-1 Metadata	Information on the acquisition parameters of the S-1 data used	KML
8. Sentinel-1 Footprint	Image boundaries of the S-1 data used	KML
9. Sentinel-1 Schedule	Next scheduled S-1 data acquisition	KML
10. Affected Population	Number of people in flooded areas, mapped by a spatial overlay of observed flood extent and gridded population	raster (Geotiff)
11. Affected Land Cover	Land cover type flooded	raster (Geotiff)