The satellite will have a number of viewing modes that will enable it to perform a wide range of roles, from flood monitoring and land cover classification to disaster mapping and maritime enforcement - notably ship tracking and oil spill detection.

BBC: Surrey to start making radar satellites

Those should be made available to all the provinces and districts for active response as well as to National Disaster Management Authority for policy formulation and strategic guidance and to Federal Flood Commission for monitoring of flood infrastructure.

UNESCO: NATURAL SCIENCES

As you know, FEMA has been working closely, monitoring the ongoing flood fight along the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, their tributaries, and other low-lying areas.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

The Environment Agency said uplands and areas that experienced heavy rain earlier this week were more at risk and it had teams checking flood defences, clearing river blockages and monitoring river levels.

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