Satellite Products capturing Nigeria's 2022 Flooding events from GEE
For this brief excersise, I wanted to apply the NDWI methodlogy for pixel classification introduced by McFeeters in 1996 to map flooding using MODIS satellite imagery. By using Google Earth Engine, I was able to access MODIS satellite products. The 2022 Nigeria Floods were some of the most devastating in recent history.
McFeeters, S. K. 1996 The use of normalized difference water index (NDWI) in the delineation of open water features. International Journal of Remote Sensing 17 (7), 1425–1432.