CLEAR-EO webinar series

From Satellite to Street Level: Enhancing Flash Flood Intelligence with Drone Data

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly referred to as drones, are increasingly used in urban flooding for rapid assessment, high-resolution mapping, modelling calibration, and infrastructure inspection. For projects like CLEAR-EO where satellite, in-situ, and application layers must interoperate, drones fill a critical “hyper-local gap” between Copernicus-scale products and street-level impact.

Done-based data are being integrated across the full disaster management cycle, supporting prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. Their ability to deliver high-resolution, rapid, and flexible data collection makes them a valuable complement to satellite and in-situ observations.

In this webinar we present an overview of the urban flooding application being built in CLEAR-EO together with various aspects of including drone-based data as part of the in-situ data that will be combined with satellite data.

Thursday 26th February 15:00 CET

Program

Welcome and introduction Bente Lilja Bye, BLB

Overview of the urban flooding application ITHACA/DMI

Introduction to drone based observations Elena Durando, ITHACA

NVE Air Operations: From Drones to Decisions, Simon Oldani, Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate, NVE

Interoperability and standards for in-situ data, Piotr Zaborowski, OGC.

Discussion