Monsoon and typhoons flood rapid mapping in China based on ENVISAT data during the 2005 - 2006 years

The Flood Dragon project enhances the Envisat contribution for natural disaster monitoring such as flooding. During the 2005 and 2006 Chinese flood seasons, over the 23 attempted NRT exploitations of Envisat, 19 were successful, allowing exploitation of emergency programming procedures as well as Rolling Archive capabilities (based on ordinary long term acquisition scheduling). Obtained results are illustrated and lessons are discussed in terms of programming, downloading, processing, and images type and format.