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The flooding caused by continuous precipitation and a typhoon resulted in severe losses to local people and property. During flood events, there is an urgent need for timely and detailed flood inundation mapping for areas that have been severely affected. However, current satellite missions cannot provide sufficient information at a high enough spatio-temporal resolution for flooding applications. In contrast, spaceborne Global Navigation Satellite System reflectometry technology can be used to observe the Earth\u2019s surface at a high spatio-temporal resolution without being affected by clouds or surface vegetation, providing a feasible scheme for flood disaster research. In this study, Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) L1 science data were processed to obtain the change in the delay-Doppler map and surface reflectivity (SR) during the flood event. Then, a flood inundation map of the extreme precipitation was drawn using the threshold method based on the CYGNSS SR. Additionally, the flooded areas that were calculated based on the soil moisture from the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) data were used as a reference. Furthermore, the daily Dry Wet Abrupt Alternation Index (DWAAI) was used to identify the occurrence of the flood events. The results showed good agreement between the flood inundation that was derived from the CYGNSS SR and SMAP soil moisture. Moreover, compared with the SMAP results, the CYGNSS SR can provide the daily flood inundation with higher accuracy due to its high spatio-temporal resolution. Furthermore, the DWAAI can identify the transformation from droughts to floods in a relatively short period. Consequently, the distributions of and variations in flood inundation under extreme weather conditions can be identified on a daily scale with good accuracy using the CYGNSS data.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/rs15020297","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,4]],"date-time":"2023-01-04T05:31:44Z","timestamp":1672810304000},"page":"297","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Detection and Evaluation of Flood Inundation Using CYGNSS Data during Extreme Precipitation in 2022 in Guangdong Province, China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5551-3079","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haohan","family":"Wei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]},{"given":"Tongning","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Civil Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, Nanjing 210037, China"}]},{"given":"Jinsheng","family":"Tu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China"}]},{"given":"Fuyang","family":"Ke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Remote Sensing and Geomatics Engineering, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, Nanjing 210044, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,1,4]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Yang, P., Wang, W., Zhai, X., Xia, J., Zhong, Y., Luo, X., Zhang, S., and Chen, N. 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