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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.

Field	Purpose	Tools
Civil Protection	NRT situational awareness	automatic feed on flood mapping for specific area automatic acquisition of flood mapping products on specific clients
Operational Hydrological forecasting	NRT verification of the consistency 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 (Gloffis, WW Hype, FANFAR)
DRR-related planning	evaluate historical flood-prone areas to draft sets of prescriptions to decrease the current risk level or avoid creating new risk	access to the full archive within a specific client application
Research	calibrate / validate hydrological/hydraulic forecast models	test alternative algorithms and/or parameters and collate the outcomes to GFMS products	specific parameters calibration and/or statistical analyses	1. download the entire archive of the global flood monitoring product output layers in raster format to calibrate / validate hydrological/hydraulic forecast models 2. access and download the S1 data used to derive the flood maps over a certain region for specific events to 3. upload a proprietary algorithm on the Cloud and run it on the full archive of the GFMS maps or on a temporal/spatial subset of it to carry out specific parameters calibration and/or statistical analyses to access the full archive the flood maps in raster or vector format so that the flood models used can be properly calibrated on the basis of the historical flood maps
	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 use (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

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