GMES Updates

The Centre for Space Science and Technology Education (CSSTE) is leading a Multi-Scale Flood Monitoring and Assessment Services for West Africa (MiFMASS) project using Earth observation satellite data. MiFMASS is one of the actions under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security and Africa (GMES & Africa) initiative. The consortium is made up of seven partner institutions from five West African countries, namely Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Benin and Nigeria. In Nigeria, the study area is the Ogun-Osun River Basin.

MiFMASS

Multi-Scale Flood Monitoring and Assessment Service Project

OBJECTIVES

DELIVERABLES

(i) Establish and updatable flood event database; (ii) Provide Disaster Management Organisations (DMOs) timely information before, during and after flood events; and (iii) Strengthen the capacities of DMOs and other target groups in the use of Earth Observation data for flood monitoring, assessment and management.

(i) Flood event database of the study areas;
(ii) Flood Forecasting and Assessment system;
(iii) Image acquisition, processing and analysis system for mapping flood extent during, or immediately after a flood; and (iv) Damage assessment module to evaluate the degree of damage after flood events.