FloodLens

💎  Idea

FloodLens is a rapid flood assessment tool: it turns the latest Copernicus satellite data into operational maps of flooded areas and into impact estimates (affected surfaces, buildings, roads, exposed farmland) that can be used directly by civil protection, local authorities and the insurance sector.

The goal is to shorten the time between a flood event and the availability of operational information on the ground, providing a lightweight, reproducible tool built entirely on open European data.

🛰️  EU Space technologies

FloodLens is built on Copernicus Earth Observation services:

• Sentinel-2 — multispectral imagery for water-surface detection and environmental index computation (e.g. NDVI, MNDWI, BSI) enabling pre/post-event comparison;
• Copernicus Emergency Management Service (EMS) — official reference for the quantitative validation of the product and for contextualisation against historical activations;
• Integration with complementary open datasets (e.g. OpenStreetMap) to describe exposed population, infrastructure and land use.

Where relevant, Galileo can provide high-accuracy positioning for integration with in-situ surveys and ground sensors.

🌍  European Space for Water

FloodLens addresses Challenge #3 — Disaster Risk Monitoring.

The project aims at making satellite information directly actionable in the hours immediately following a flood event, supporting emergency response, rapid damage assessment and territorial resilience planning.

The pipeline is conceived as full-and-open data, consistent with European technological sovereignty principles and open to further thematic extensions (water pollution, water stress, compound events).

#Copernicus  #Sentinel2   #Galileo  #FloodMapping  #DisasterRisk   #EarthObservation  #OpenData  #Italia   #EUSpace  #SpaceForWater #DeepLearning #MachineLearning