RF-CLASS: Remote-sensing-based Flood Crop Loss Assessment Service System

<p>The Remote-sensing-based Flood Crop Loss Assessment Service System (RF-CLASS) is an Earth Observation (EO) based flood crop loss assessment cyber-service system operated by the Center for Spatial Information Science and Systems (CSISS), George Mason University. RF-CLASS supports flood-related crop statistics and insurance decision-making. Based on the service-orientated architecture, RF-CLASS has been implemented with open interoperability specifications to facilitate the interoperability with EO data systems, particularly the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), for automatically fetching the input data from the data systems. Validated EO algorithms have been implemented as web services in the system to operationally produce a set of flood-related products from EO data, such as flood frequency, flooded acreage, and degree of crop damage, for supporting decision-making in flood statistics and flood crop insurance policy. The system leverages recent advances in the remote sensing-based flood monitoring and assessment, the near-real-time availability of EO data, the service-oriented architecture, geospatial interoperability standards, and the standard-based geospatial web service technology. The prototype system has automatically generated the flood crop loss products and demonstrated the feasibility of using such products to improve the agricultural decision-making. </p><div><br>Resources in this dataset:</div><br><ul><li><p>Resource Title: Website Pointer to RF-CLASS: Remote-sensing-based Flood Crop Loss Assessment Service System.</p> <p>File Name: Web Page, url: <a href="https://dss.csiss.gmu.edu/RFCLASS/">https://dss.csiss.gmu.edu/RFCLASS/</a> </p><p>Basic Layers: Global Cover: CDL: CDL 2012, Crop Mask; Boundaries,:Counties, States, ASD; Water Layers: Rivers, Lakes; Road Layers: Freeway System (National), Major Highways (Regional); Flood Data Layers: flood_frequency.</p> <p>Products: Type: Flood; Crop Fraction; Crop Loss; Flood Events; NDVI; VCI; RVCI; RMVCI; MVCI. (Period/Year/Date)</p></li></ul><p></p>