As weather and climate conditions that favor flooding increase due to climate change, global flood monitoring is more important than ever. To meet the growing challenge of monitoring floods, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies are taking advantage of high-resolution satellite imagery to detect where they may occur and how people, cities and rural areas might be affected. “We don’t just show where it’s flooding,” says CIMSS scientist William Straka III. “The flood products from satellite data could be used to derive other pieces of information like what populations are impacted by the flooding or what amount of cropland might be impacted or where there is structural damage.”