On 3/13/23, Micky Maganini of SERVIR's Science Coordination Office delivered a guest lecture regarding SERVIR's surface water mapping tool "HYDRAFloods" to the graduate-level course "Observing and Modelling Surface Water In A Changing World" offered at ITC. ITC is the faculty of Geo-information and Earth Observation at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands, and has been a SERVIR partner since 2018. This course was an elective in the master's degree program in Geo-information and Earth Observation, also known as the "M-GEO" program.
After the guest lecture and live demonstration of HYDRAFloods, which is an open-source Python application utilizing Google Earth Engine and the Google Cloud Platform to implement earth observation-based surface water mapping, the students worked through interactive "Google Colaboratory" Notebooks based on the tool. This lecture marked the third SERVIR tool that has been implemented in ITC's M-GEO program as a part of SERVIR's "Curriculum Development Project", which launched in November of 2022. Based on results of an exit survey administered to the professor and the students of the course, the professor remarked that they plan to use HYDRAFloods in next year's iteration of the course.
