Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 8
Articles | Volume 22, issue 8
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2473-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-22-2473-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 22, issue 8
Research article
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02 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 02 Aug 2022

Effectiveness of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 for flood detection assessment in Europe

Angelica Tarpanelli, Alessandro C. Mondini, and Stefania Camici

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We analysed 10 years of river discharge data from almost 2000 sites in Europe, and we extracted flood events, as proxies of flood inundations, based on the overpasses of Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 satellites to derive the percentage of potential inundation events that they were able to observe. Results show that on average 58 % of flood events are potentially observable by Sentinel-1 and only 28 % by Sentinel-2 due to the obstacle of cloud coverage.
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