SAR flood mapping with SNAP
In this tutorial we will use Level-1 Ground Range Detected (GRD) Sentinel-1 data downloaded from the Copernicus Open Access Hub. The example data is from a study area in Nigeria near the city of Lokoja in Kogi province near the junction of the two large rivers Niger and Benue. During the westafrican monsoon April - September heavy rainfall and floods occur.
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Data transfer
Download example tutorial data from Nigeria or data from your personal region of interest: two Sentinel-1 scenes one pre-event acquisition date and one post-event date: Downloading Sentinel-2 images. Select Product type GRD with VV polarization.
Subsetting
Open SNAP Desktop. Drag and drop the zip files of the Sentinel-2 scenes into the TOC. We need to reduce the amount data by subsetting the large Sentinel-1 scenes.
