¶ Product and Service quality assessment
This section provides the published reports on the Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) product and service quality assessment, which present the results of the quarterly monitoring and reporting of the following key aspects of the GFM product performance:
- The thematic accuracy of the GFM Observed Flood Extent and Reference Water Mask, based on selected representative Use Cases of worldwide flood events.
- The thematic accuracy of the GFM processed archive of worldwide observed floods and water bodies for the years 2015-2021.
- The product timeliness with which the GFM output layers are delivered.
- The availability to users of all service components of the GFM product, as well as aspects related to user uptake and usability of the service (i.e. unique visitors, total visitors, total downloads, and service performance experience).
- The general plausibility of the GFM Exclusion Mask, which denotes areas where SAR-based flood and water mapping is not technically feasible.
To download the reports, click below:
- GFM - Annual Product and Service Quality Assessment Report 2023 [download]
- GFM - Annual Product and Service Quality Assessment Report 2022 [download]
- GFM - Pre-operational Product and Service Quality Assessment Report [download]
The New, Systematic Global Flood Monitoring Product of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, P. Salamon et al., 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium IGARSS, Brussels, Belgium, 2021, pp. 1053-1056, doi: 10.1109/IGARSS47720.2021.9554214 [download]
Estimating Ensemble Likelihoods for the Sentinel-1-Based Global Flood Monitoring Product of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, C. Krullikowski et al., in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 16, pp. 6917-6930, 2023, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2023.3292350 [download]