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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.
This table below is intended to point GFM's users to the kind of service that could be more suitable for their needs.
A full overview of all the possible ways to access GFM's products is given here.

Field	Purpose	Through	Data Access
Civil Protection	NRT situational awareness	. Automatic feed on flood mapping for specific area . Automatic acquisition of flood mapping products on specific clients	Web application REST-APIs
Operational Hydrological forecasting	NRT verification of impact-wise forecasts	. Automatic acquisition of flood mapping products on EFAS / GloFAS . Automatic acquisition of flood mapping products in other national/regional/global forecast systems (Tethys, WW Hype, FANFAR)	REST-APIs
DRR-related planning	Retrieval of historical flood-prone areas	. Access to the full archive within a specific client application and draft sets of prescriptions to decrease the current risk level or avoid creating new risk	Web Map Service
Research	Calibration/validation of hydrological/hydraulic forecast models	. Download the entire archive of the global flood monitoring product output layers in raster format to calibrate / validate hydrological/hydraulic forecast models	REST-APIs Web application Web Map Service
	Test flood mapping alternative algorithms	. Access and download the Sentinel-1 data used to derive the flood maps over a certain region for specific events and compare them to GFM outcomes	UNDER DEVELOPMENT
	Flood mapping algorithms calibration	. Upload a proprietary algorithm on the Cloud and run it on the full archive of the GFM maps or on a temporal/spatial subset	UNDER DEVELOPMENT
	Flood models calibration	. Access the full archive the flood maps in raster or vector format and calibrate the model on the basis of the historical flood maps	REST-APIs Web application
Insurance	NRT Disaster loss estimate	. Access in NRT the flood maps in raster or vector format to outline a footprint-based estimate of disaster loss	GloFAS / EFAS Web application
Non-expert end users (NGOs, flood-related service providers, general public)	. NRT actionable information	. 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 . To receive notifications on relevant floods in NRT	Web application GloFAS / EFAS

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