![Figure 1. Two comparison examples of VIIRS FIM products and Sentinel-1 SAR FIM products in March during Midwestern Great Flood in 2019 (SAR FIM products are available at https://rapid-nrt-flood-maps.s3.amazonaws.com/).](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/zhang_pic.png)
Accelerating the Exploitation of Satellite Observations to Improve Flood and Inundation Monitoring and Forecasts
ESSIC/CISESS Scientist Qingyuan Zhang and their colleagues have developed a framework to compare Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Flood Inundation Maps (FIM) with Sentinel-1 synthetic aperture radar (SAR) FIM.