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Training

UCAR/COMET has developed a free training course on the usage of this website here

La capacitación de UCAR sobre el uso del sitio web de inundaciones globales del Grupo de Pruebas de Satélites de la NOAA se puede encontrar aquí

Tools

A selection of products are available in AWIPS2, for more information refer to this help document

LEO/GEO Archive

The experimental archive of the NOAA LEO/GEO Flood extent products can be downloaded: https://jpssflood.gmu.edu/

Products in GIS (shapefile and geoTIF) as well as the raw HDF formats and visual png images of the products are available from 02 October 2019 through the previous day are available for user specified domains and time periods.

Additional years for the 1-day and 5-day composites can be found on AWS at
https://noaa-jpss.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#JPSS_Blended_Products/

The 1 day composites can be found in the VFM_1day_GLB folder and the 5-day in the VFM_5day_GLB folder

Please note that the raw files are in NetCDF4, but are organized similarly to the HDF files. Also GeoTIF and Shape files are available

Link to Area of Interest Map to locate which GBLxxx files are needed for a specific area can be found here. It is suggested that users use the Amazon Command Line interface to download files. Files located on the AWS bucket are egress free downloads.

LEO/GEO NRT Cloud repositories

The LEO VIIRS Flood swath products on AWS can be found at
https://noaa-nesdis-n21-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#VIIRS_VFM_MWS_MOSAIC/

https://noaa-nesdis-n20-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html#VIIRS_VFM_MWS_MOSAIC

The ABI VIIRS Flood products on AWS can be found at : (link TBD)

Value information within files

Information on the values contained in the geoTIF, PNG and raw files can be found here.

If you have any questions, please contact Sanmei Li (slia @ masonlive . gmu . edu) and Yan Wang (ywang95 @ gmu. edu)

LEO/GEO Archive

The Geostationary and JPSS Flood map product is developed by George Mason University and the products are processed in near realtime at the Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies

Funding for this project is provided by NOAA/NESDIS, JPSS Program Office and GOES-R
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