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Mueller, N.
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The damage caused by the major floods in 2011 over Eastern Australia, created an increased demand for centralised flood information. The National Flood Risk Information Project (NFRIP) was created to help fill this demand. One component of NFRIP is the provision of historic flood information from satellite imagery, which is being delivered through the Water Observations from Space (WOfS) product from Geoscience Australia. The WOfS product summarises how frequently surface water was observed by satellites over the Australian continent between 1987 and 2014. Where water is observed regularly or all the time, it indicates the presence of permanent water bodies such as lakes or dams. Where it is observed only a few times it indicates the possible occurrence of events such as flooding. WOfS is particularly useful where no other flood information exists, such as across broad inland floodplains and where no flood studies have been performed. WOfS is currently available to the public and is already being used for studies that benefit from continental-scale water extents. It provides information on how water moves across the landscape and might impact roads and other infrastructure. It is also being used in water resource assessments, aquatic ecological studies and to update Australia's hydrological mapping datasets.
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