{"id":798,"date":"2020-10-07T07:12:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T06:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimafoundation.org\/2020\/10\/19\/floods-in-north-west-italy-monitored-by-satellite\/"},"modified":"2022-11-14T11:41:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T11:41:18","slug":"floods-in-north-west-italy-monitored-by-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/news\/floods-in-north-west-italy-monitored-by-satellite\/","title":{"rendered":"Floods in North-West Italy monitored by satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Thanks to the data provided by Sentinel 1 and 2 satellites and the algorithms developed by CIMA\u00a0Research\u00a0Foundation, it was possible to process the maps of the flooded areas in north-western Italy on the night between October 2nd\u00a0and 3rd, in about 12 hours<\/em>\u00a0<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following the floods that hit the North-West of Italy between October 2<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0 and 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, 2020, the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" aria-label=\"Italian\u00a0Civil Protection Department (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.protezionecivile.gov.it\/\" target=\"_blank\">Italian\u00a0Civil Protection Department<\/a> requested\u00a0CIMA\u00a0Research\u00a0Foundation, Competence Center for Hydrogeological Risk,\u00a0the\u00a0<strong>mapping\u00a0of\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0flooded\u00a0areas<\/strong>\u00a0observed\u00a0by\u00a0Earth\u00a0satellite\u00a0data.\u00a0CIMA Research Foundation\u00a0used data from Sentinel-1 radar satellite, able to provide day and night images in any weather condition, and data from the Sentinel-2 multispectral satellite, which provides images during the day and in the absence of cloud cover.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both satellites observed the area of interest on Saturday, October 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, allowing to assess the extent of the flooded areas at two different times during the\u00a0day:\u00a0Sentinel-2\u00a0data\u00a0were\u00a0acquired at 12.20 pm and Sentinel-1 data\u00a0acquired\u00a0at 7.25\u00a0pm.\u00a0Three\u00a0maps\u00a0were\u00a0generated using algorithms developed by CIMA\u00a0Research\u00a0Foundation for the mapping of\u00a0flooded\u00a0areas,\u00a0.\u00a0These maps, <strong>produced in about 12 hours <\/strong>from the availability of the images in the catalog, show the situation in the area of Vercelli and Ventimiglia seen by Sentinel-2 (at 12.20 pm) and the situation in Piedmont observed by Sentinel-1 at 7.25 pm. The permanent waters are represented in blue, while the flooded areas are represented in\u00a0light\u00a0blue. It is\u00a0possible to notice the effect of the flooding of the\u00a0Sesia\u00a0river (Vercelli), given the presence of several celestial areas adjacent to the river itself. The flooding of the\u00a0Roja\u00a0river (Ventimiglia) is also clearly visible.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alluvioni-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1303\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alluvioni-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1304\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimafoundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Alluvioni-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1305\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the data provided by Sentinel 1 and 2 satellites and the algorithms developed by CIMA\u00a0Research\u00a0Foundation, it was possible to process the maps of the flooded areas in north-western Italy on the night between October 2nd\u00a0and 3rd, in about 12 hours\u00a0 Following the floods that hit the North-West of Italy between October 2nd\u00a0 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,127],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-earth-observation","tag-italy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cimafoundation.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}