The Task 2 team has obtained first SAR images of the region on Florida's west coast affected by the landfall of Hurricane Ian. As an example, this page shows a COSMO-SkyMed SAR image of the Sanibel Causeway, which was heavily damaged, as reported in the news. The SAR image was acquired on September 29, 11:22 UTC (07:22 local time), and downlinked and processed by the University of Miami's satellite data receiving and processing facility CSTARS. The animated GIF below shows a comparison with an optical image from January 2021, as available on Google Earth.
Deltares presented their results on coastal flooding and damages due to hurricanes Ian (2022), Idalia (2023), Beryl (2024) and Francine (2024) at ICCE2024 and in Storymap.
A tool for production of rapid-repeat high-resolution coastal vegetation maps has been developed.
The NHCI project coordinated the airdrop of 16 surface wave buoys and subsurface water level sensors in the path of Hurricane Francine.
