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Global Flood Inundation Map Repository (GloFIMR)

GloFIMR is an extension of the USFIMR project that commenced in August 2016 with funding from NOAA. The project’s main goal is to provide high-resolution inundation extent maps of flood events to be used by scientists and practitioners for model calibration and flood susceptibility evaluation. The maps are based on analysis of Remote Sensing imagery from a number of Satellite sensors (e.g. Landsat, Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2). The maps are accessible via the online map repository below. The repository is under development and new maps are added upon request.

For information, requests and data contribution contact the project PI: Dr. Sagy Cohen (sagy.cohen@ua.edu) or Lead Developer: Dinuke  Munasinghe dsnanayakkaramunasinghe@crimson.ua.edu (formerly Bradford Bates and James Misfeldt).

Flood inundation maps are listed on the map side panel  Screen Shot 2016-09-01 at 9.58.36 PM  and at the table below.  

Flood layer properties and download links* will be listed once a layer is selected from the side panel or the map.

* Download links will not work when using ‘Safari’ web browser

The dataset can also be accessed directly via Google Maps or through the SDML Datasets Portal.

Download the entire dataset in Shapefile format.

NOTE: Rendering of the flood inundation layers at the Google Maps display is at a considerably lower spatial resolution than the actual (shapefile) layers.


River Name

State

Year

Date

Platform

Mapped Inundation Area (sq km)

Source*

Shapefile Download
San Jacinto Texas 2016 May 30 10m Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 94.7 SDML Brazos (near Hempstead) Texas 2016 May 28 30m Landsat 8 OLI 48.7 SDML Brazos (near Richmond) Texas 2016 May 30 10m Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 214.9 SDML Maquoketa Iowa 2016 Sep 26 30m Landsat 8 OLI 59.5 DFO
Cedar Iowa 2016 Sep 26 30m Landsat 8 OLI 233.1 DFO Download
Wapsipinicon Iowa 2016 Sep 26 30m Landsat 8 OLI 154.8 DFO Download
Mississippi Iowa 2016 Sep 26 30m Landsat 8 OLI 446.1 DFO Download
Washita Oklahoma 2015 May 29 10m Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 43.9 SDML Download
Iowa Iowa 2016 Sep 26 30m Landsat 8 OLI 136.4 DFO Download
Lumber & Little Pee Dee N/S Carolina 2016 Oct 13 30m Landsat 8 OLI 587.1 SDML Download
Black (SC) S Carolina 2016 Oct 13 30m Landsat 8 OLI 253.9 SDML Download
Willow Creek Texas 2016 May 28 30m Landsat 8 OLI 15.7 SDML Download
Spring Creek Texas 2016 May 28 30m Landsat 8 OLI 57.1 SDML Download
Choctawhatchee River Alabama/Florida 2016 Jan 4 30m Landsat 8 OLI 562.9 SDML Download
Pea River Alabama 2016 Jan 4 30m Landsat 8 OLI 61 SDML Download
Holmes Creek Florida 2016 Jan 4 30m Landsat 8 OLI 27.1 SDML Download
Mississippi River Missouri 2017 May 4 10m Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 68.4 DFO Download
Castor River Missouri 2017 May 4 10m Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 44.9 DFO Download
St Francis River Missouri 2017 May 4 10m Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 32.9 DFO Download
Black River (AR) Arkansas 2017 May 4 10m Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 269.8 DFO Download
Mississippi River Missouri 2017 May 10 30m Landsat 8 OLI 1129.6 SDML Download
Pascagoula River Mississippi 2011 March 17 30m Landsat 7 ETM+ 804.2 SDML Download
Black River (AR) Arkansas 2017 May 10 30m Landsat 8 OLI 506.0 SDML Download
Cache River Arkansas 2017 May 4 10m Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) 91.8 DFO Download
Sacramento Valley California 2017 February 22 30m Landsat 8 OLI 2341.4 SDML Download
Mississippi River Tennessee 2011 May 10 30m Landsat 5 TM 6612.5 SDML Download
Canadian River Oklahoma 2016 September 26 30m Landsat 8 OLI 40.4 DFO Download
Tar River North Carolina 2016 October 15 30m Landsat 8 OLI 485.8 SDML Download
Ashley River South Carolina 2016 October 13 30m Landsat 8 OLI 239.9 SDML Download
Neuse River North Carolina 2016 October 15 30m Landsat 8 OLI 281.4 SDML Download
Cooper River South Carolina 2016 October 13 30m Landsat 8 OLI 395.5 SDML Download
Wisconsin River Wisconsin 2010 September 26 30m Landsat 5 TM 328.7 SDML Trempeableau River Wisconsin 2010 September 26 30m Landsat 5 TM 37.8 SDML Jamuna River Bangladesh 2017 July 14 10m Sentinel-2 3118.0 SDML Minnesota River Minnesota 2010 October 1 30m Landsat 5 TM 261.9 SDML Mississippi River Minnesota 2010 October 3 30m Landsat 5 TM 783.6 SDML Red River North Dakota 1997 April 18 30m Landsat 5 TM 2121.2 SDML Rio Grande River Texas 2010 September 25 30m Landsat 7 ETM+ 952.9 SDML Redwood River Minnesota 2010 October 1 30m Landsat 5 TM 55.2 SDML Rio Grande River Texas 2010 July 14 30m Landsat 7 ETM+ 1106.0 SDML Rio Grande River Texas 2010 July 23 30m Landsat 7 ETM+ 378.2 SDML Mississippi River Louissiana 2016 August 16 Earth Observing 1 – ALI 96.8 DFO * SDML – Surface Dynamics Modeling Lab; DFO – Dartmouth Flood Observatory

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