ENVI Plays Key Role in Flood Detection Story written and submitted by Mária Putsay and Judit Kerenyi of the Hungarian Meteorological Service Customer Challenge During the recent years large and extreme floods occurred frequently in many parts of the world. In the past, the flood forecasts and defense-related information provided by Romania to Hungary (downstream) have been entirely based on the ground-observed data, which were mostly collected by non-automatic hydrometeorological stations. An international team needed to produce a high-resolution land use map of the study area and develop a method for floodwater detection. Solution Achieved During the recent years large and extreme floods occurred frequently in many parts of the world. One of the Central-Eastern European regions which

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