This project will tackle societies need for emergency response agencies to maintain their pre-COVID-19 response times and capacity while operating with significantly reduced manpower levels, due to COVID-19\. This project will specifically tackle flood incident response, which is coordinated by the Environment Agency (EA) in England, by developing and trialling fully automated, low cost, near real time remote flood monitoring using satellite imagery from SAR sensors that 'see' through the rain clouds. This project aims to enable the EA to: * gather flood extent data remotely, more quickly, accurately and at a greater scale than the army of EA flood observers can * better distribute their reduced resources thus ensuring that a significant reduction in EA staffing levels does not translate to a significant increase in the number of properties, economic impact and lives lost due to flood incidents If achieved, Spottitt will be in a position to deliver self-service, near real time flood extent monitoring, at scale across the UK, and ultimately other geographies. This project will be delivered by Spottitt, a UK based startup which specializes in the development of fully automated satellite analytics. Customer support, input, analysis validation, and feedback will be provided by the EA. Among their many responsibilities, the EA are responsible for issuing all flood warnings and coordinating flood preparation and response activities for over 500 flood incidents a year across England Thanks to an additional 'extension for effect' funding awarded to this project the project team were able to extend the duration of to project by 3 months thus supporting UK users through the both the extended COVID crisis and the 9 wettest months of the year (July - March). We involved an additional 5 consumers in beta service testing, invested in go-to-market data and maximized probability of image capture success by integration of SAR imagery provision from 2 major commercial providers to insure maximum service launch impact.