Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) : pre-operational product and service quality assessment report

This publication is a Technical Report on the Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) product of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, which is operated by an international consortium led by the Earth Observation Data Centre for Water Resources Monitoring GmbH (EODC), under a Framework Contract with the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Commission's science and knowledge service. The aim of the report is to provide a product and service quality assessment for the pre-operational phase of the GFM Product. In order to assess the thematic accuracy of the output layers of flood information provided by the GFM Product, a systematic check has been performed of the product quality and consistency with the Technical Specifications. This report describes the related quality assurance activities and achieved results, based on an initial analysis of the performance of the GFM Product for a representative set of Use Cases of worldwide flood events.