SUITABILITY
To implement meaningful user data, access a preliminary identification of the user segments and relevant functional requirements has been carried out. The consortium intends to revise this preliminary analysis together with JRC in the first phase of the project:
should any gap be identified, the analysis will be updated, and the implementation workflow adapted to the newly identified use cases.
The identification of the user ecosystem is based on the extended experience of the various partner and a desktop review of relevant European projects in the field of floods, natural hazards and satellite data that developed such analysis.
Studies carried out by ESA in respect to the Thematic Exploitation platforms as well as within the CEOS working group on disasters have been considered. Although the consulted analyses have been developed with reference to services potentially different to the one considered in this project, many similarities can be found with the needs of the potential GFMS users.
| Purposes | Tasks |
| Civil Protection | automatic feed on flood mapping for specific area automatic acquisition of flood mapping products on specific clients |
| Operational Hydrological forecasting | automatic acquisition of flood mapping products on EFAS/GloFAS or other national/regional/global forecast systems (Gloffis, FFD Central Water Commission, WW Hype) to verify in NRT the consistency of impact-wise forecasts |
| DRR-related planning | To access information derived from the full archive within a specific client application to evaluate historical flood-prone areas and draft sets of prescriptions to decrease the current risk level or avoid creating new risk prone areas |
| Research | to download the entire archive of the global flood monitoring product output layers in raster format to calibrate / validate hydrological/hydraulic forecast models To access and download the S1 data used to derive the flood maps over a certain region for specific events to test alternative algorithms and/or parameters and collate the outcomes to GFMS products |
| Insurances | To access in NRT the flood maps in raster or vector format to outline a footprint-based estimate of disaster loss |
| Non-expert end users (NGOs, flood-related service providers, general public) | To receive a ready-to-print map in NRT for a certain event in a selected region To receive short feeds depicting in NRT the flood status over a certain region v To receive notifications on relevant floods in NRT |
