The following is a description of the latest operational release of EFAS v4.5, planned for release on 13 September 2022. For an overview of other EFAS releases, please see: EFAS versioning system
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- Introduction of new Global Flood Monitoring (GFM) layer on EFAS-IS.
- A new widget is planned for GFM products on the top right side of the toolbar on the EFAS-IS map viewer.
- the first icon is for the GFM widget
- As part of the GFM integration, the following layers have been added to the EFAS-IS map viewer:
- Advisory Flags, Affected Landcover, Affected Population, Exclusion Mask, Likelihood Values, Observed Flood Extent, Observed Water Extent, Reference Water Mask, Sentinel 1 Footprint, Sentinel 1 Schedule
- Detailed documentation on the Global Flood Monitoring widget and layers can be found on the dedicated wiki page:EFAS Global Flood Monitoring Products Overview following the release.
- A new widget is planned for GFM products on the top right side of the toolbar on the EFAS-IS map viewer.
Technical details
| Release date | 2022-09-13 12UTC |
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| In test suite | 2022-07-19 12UTC |
EFAS internal release | 019 |
| Archiving of data | ECFS, MARS, CDS |
| Climatology | 1991-01-01 - to near real-time |
| Horizontal projection | ETRS89 Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area Coordinate Reference System (ETRS-LAEA) |
| Horizontal resolution | 5 x 5 km 1 x 1 km for TAMIR products |
| Temporal resolution | 6-hourly for medium range-monthly products, 24-hourly for seasonal 1-hourly for TAMIR products for first 6 hours lead time, 6-hourly thereafter |