FERRARIS , Luca

An automated tool for pre-operational mapping of floods and inland waters using Sentinel- 1 data is presented. The acronym AUTOWADE (AUTOmaticWater Areas DEtector) is used to denote it. The tool provides the end user (Italian Department of Civil Protection) with a continuous, near real-time (NRT) monitoring of the extent of inland water...

In compliance with the national legal framework, the regional offices (CFDs) of the Italian Civil Protection Department have the daily duty to issue warn- ings to the local population on the account of the weather and hydrology- related impacts, predicted by forecast models and refined through their exper- tise and experience: this composite of...