Global Flood Alert System ver.2 (GFAS-II) released
  12th June 2015 / IFNet secretariat




IDI-Japan has been operating gGlobal Flood Alert System (GFAS)h on the following web site
since April 2006.
[for PC] http://gfas.internationalfloodnetwork.org/gfas-web/

GFAS provides a global flood risk map which shows precipitation return period calculated from
satellite precipitation data of TRMM(*1).
GFASfs horizontal resolution is about 25 km and we update its data every 24 hours.

On the other hand, JAXA has been delivering another satellite-based precipitation data, GSMaP
(Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation *2). Its horizontal resolution is about 10km and it is
updated every hour.

With 2016 being the fifteenth year since the data collection of GSMaP was started, IDI-Japan
began to develop the next version of GFAS which uses GSMaP data. And recently, we opened
the following web sites as the trial version for GFAS-II.
[for Smartphone] http://gfas.internationalfloodnetwork.org/n-gfas-web/sp/frmMain.aspx
[for PC] http://gfas.internationalfloodnetwork.org/n-gfas-web/pc/frmMain.aspx

We hope you will take a look at the GFAS-II web sites, and welcome any comments from you.
For usage instructions please refer to the following material.

[Usage of GFAS-II]
http://www.internationalfloodnetwork.org/GFAS%20II/Usage_of_GFAS-II(20150610)_with_JP.pdf

GFAS-II currently has four display languages. If we could have your cooperation in translation, we will try to add display in your countryfs language.

Upon request, we can also propose ideas for customization for particular river basins or dam catchment areas.

If you have any questions or comments, please send an e-mail to the following address.
Junko Katayama (Staff in charge of GFAS-II) e-mail : 2bu12@idi.or.jp

[Reference]
*1 TRMM F http://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/TRMM/about/top_e.html
*2 GSMaP F http://sharaku.eorc.jaxa.jp/GSMaP/guide.html