An Automatic Flood Monitoring Service From Sentinel-1 Sar: Products, Delivery Pipelines, And Performance Assessment

This paper describes a collaborative effort between the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition Center (SPoRT) to expand the use of SAR in the operational response to weather-related hazards in the U.S.Work conducted within this effort includes (1) the development of SAR-derived value-added products that can be run in fully-automatic production pipelines and generate easy-to-understand hazard information layers; (2) the design of a cloud-based production and delivery pipeline that can be initiated by an end-user and automatically delivers value-added products to data analysts; and (3) the application of the developed hazard monitoring service in operational response scenarios as well as the evaluation of its performance.In this paper, the various components of the developed service will be outlined. The application of SAR-based hazard data to a range of weather-related disaster events will be described and first findings regarding the performance of the developed services will be shared.