Applications Of A Sar-Based Flood Monitoring Service During Disaster Response And Recovery

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 described in this paper includes a short introduction of the developed SAR-based flood monitoring service with its technical implementation and main hazard information products. We also present results from the application of this systems to two major recent flood hazard events in the U.S. Specifically, the paper will describe the application of the developed hazard monitoring service in operational response to the major hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria (2017), as well as Florence (2018). The analyzed hurricanes caused significant flooding and related damages.For both events periods, we describe how SAR was integrated into hazard response, show representative data products, and describe the main lessons learned from the use of SAR products during event response.