Offline evaluation efforts include the visual inspection of over 10,000 VIIRS false-color composite images, an inter-comparison with MODIS automatic flood products and a quantitative validation using Landsat imagery.
Validated EO algorithms have been implemented as web services in the system to operationally produce a set of flood-related products from EO data, such as flood frequency, flooded acreage, and degree of crop damage, for supporting decision-making in flood statistics and flood crop insurance policy.
The utility of this joint flood prediction system is then demonstrated by improving upon probabilistic TC flood risk products, which currently account for storm surge but do not take into account TC associated rainfall-runoff.
At a time when CD's have never been easier to make, the market is flooded with products: the major labels released more than 6,400 albums last year.
The flood of products from China, which had a trade surplus with the United States of $124 billion last year, climbed by $1.6 billion in January compared with January 2003.
How do we change mindset to encourage individuals and communities to think about protecting their homes using tested flood protection products?
A result, Mr. Gartenberg and other industry analysts said, has been a flood of products that a few years ago could have been found only in science fiction, if not in bulkier and far costlier products.
The "toilet bung" – a rubber bag pushed round the U-bend and inflated with a bike pump – is among the more unusual flood protection products Andy Tagg has encountered at the HR Wallingford testing laboratory in Oxfordshire.
Over the last 18 months or so, this question has become tougher to answer as a flood of products with names like Voldemort, Hadoop and Cassandra have appeared on the scene.
rules against protectionism have made it difficult for countries in the West to limit China's sixfold surge in exports during those 10 years, even as the Chinese flood of products has forced factory closings and layoffs elsewhere.
