Enhanced Flood Forecasting System for Critical Infrastructure Protection in Medium Size Alpine Catchments

The EFFORS service solution aims to provide flood forecasting intended to protect critical infrastructure and is aimed at infrastructure operators such as railway and motorway operators, industrial companies and hydropower operators as well as public institutions (authorities for disaster control centres, municipalities, water authorities, disaster control units) and private individuals. The System is based on two space assets: SATCOM, ensuring quasi real time data communication in critical situations (floods) and in remote areas; EO, for improved land use and land cover information. The project objectives are in this respect the buildup of a flood forecasting system using real time measurements, earth observation information and 2D hydrodynamic modelling to increase the forecasting quality and to commercialize the results.