Detecting and monitoring flooded areas in satellite imagery with an easy classification approach

Over the weekend, as I scrolled through my Twitter feed, I saw the news about Dubai Airport getting flooded during a rare storm (greater than 250 mm of rainfall in 24 hours!!). I hoped to search out clear satellite images to display an easy approach to separating flooded and non-flooded areas. Luckily, Sentinel-2 captured two images on April seventh (pre-flood…