All, [sent 11 June 2008] No radar data yet and another cloudy day for optical (satellite) resources. We are waiting to hear from USGS on RADARSAT etc via WEM (WI Emerg. Mgt). I've heard that maybe nothing new will be available until June 18? but this is not confirmed. However, others with access have offered to look at radar availability, and this is what I get via the Alaska SAR facility folks: There are 4 PALSAR FBD acquired 6/8/08 along the outside edge of his bounding box. The acquisitions do not cover any major bodies of water, and are west of the Mississippi except in the places north of his bounding box (Winona, MN), nor any other major areas affected by the flooding. I don't believe the 4 available right now would be of much use, but I will continue to watch the AUIG to see if anything else will be acquired over the next few days, and I will keep you posted if I see anything interesting. I do know that SPOT is officially on the wish list, so if the Landsat schedule doesn't pan-out, there is a chance for SPOT. Also, there will be detailed (6" or 3" color) photography acquired as well as 1-foot LIDAR as soon as federal declaration is made for (the former and now vanished) Lake Delton [-98.776, 43.601]. Dramatic photos in yesterday's paper of the washout and house collapses. I received a shapefile from WEM/USGS of "dams of concern." I will post that too. It is in WTM8391 and so I'll make a Lat/Lon version to help those outside of Wisconsin and GIS but probably not until tomorrow. I'll also post a "counties" shapefile since Emergency management likes to know things by counties. If you are interested, the Severe Storms group of NOAA has generated some GeoTIFF output for us of rainfall totals that use hybrid scan reflectivity that are corrected with gauge measurements. File names are descriptive so that "72h_gc_hsr_20080609-120000.tif" means 72 hour total gauge corrected, hybrid scan reflectivity for the period ending on 20080609 at 1200 hours (UTC). Rad_hsr is, basically radar-only, not gauge corrected. See http://nmq.ou.edu/ for product details. I've posted those to this (temporary, by the way) location in separate folders with a note on rgb to millimeter conversion for classification: ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/ersc/batzli/floods/June_2008/ I'll establish a more permanent ftp location soon. I've posted Update 2 for anyone new to this list. More tomorrow. Thanks again for your interest in helping. We are expecting more rain in several parts of the state the next 48 hours. -- Sam Dr. Sam Batzli, WisconsinView Director Environmental Remote Sensing Space Science & Engineering Center 1225 W Dayton ST, RM 1215 University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison, WI 53706 Voice 608-263-3126 Fax 608-262-5974