Proposal Summary We propose to conduct a feasibility study on the potential to develop a new automated flood monitoring tool, and to link it to existing experimental flood detection techniques to provide a highly reliable global capability for integrated flood detection, measurement, and monitoring for the benefit of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and other end-users. Existing remote sensing-based efforts to detect flood conditions in near real time rely on the use of precipitation measurements in hydrological models (http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov/publications_dir/potential_flood.html), or the use of passive microwave measurements of river surface area to sense river discharge changes (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~floods/AMSR-E%20Gaging%20Reaches/IndexMap.htm). There is evident merit to each of these existing approaches, and synergetic use may provide a more accurate and robust assessment of flood conditions. Furthermore, despite progress in this area, there is still typically a subst antial time lag between the time a flooding condition is detected and the availability of satellite based flood inundation maps. The focus of this study will be to address this by 1) examining the feasibility of automating the sub-setting and delivery of moderate resolution satellite data to provide input for flood mapping 2) testing the feasibility of triggering the process with a combination of the currently available global hydrological analysis and satellite based river discharge measurements, and 3) developing an automated process for producing the flood inundation maps. An additional aspect of this proposed feasibility study is to examine the possibility of utilizing the produced flood maps in the validation and calibration of the flood potential detection products. This proposal responds to the Applied Sciences Program applications themes of Disaster Management, Water Resources (including future use of GPM and NPP data), and Weather (including future use of GPM and NPP for planning transportation of people and material).