What is GFMS?

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The GFMS is designed to achieve the following three major requirements, namely:

  • to provide a continuous global, systematic monitoring of flood events,
  • to significantly enhance the timeliness of flood maps for emergency response and
  • to improve the effectiveness of Rapid Mapping activation requests through a better identification of the area of interest.


GFMS is run by the GLOBAL FLOOD MONITORING ALLIANCE, consisting of

  • 2 companies: the EODC (Earth Observation Data Centre - Group Leader) and GeoVille from Austria,
  • 3 research institutions: the TU Wien (Austria), LIST (Luxembourg) and CIMA (Italy) and
  • the German Aerospace Center (DLR, as sub-contractor to EODC)

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