The recent floods in the UK saw a lot of the management of that disaster made possible by using information from satellites. But how? In this edition of Space we find out. <br /> <br />Flooding affects thousands of people every year across Europe, and this year one of them just happened to be a flood scientist - Spanish Research Fellow at Reading University in England, Javier García-Pintado. <br /> <br />His back garden looks onto the Thames, he explains: "This is the bank of the Thames, and this areas was severely affected by the recent flooding. Specifically in this little bit of land we are a tiny bit higher, and we didn't have any problems, but our neighbours around here certainly did." <br /> <br />García-Pintado knew his young family was safe at home, because he could count on his expert knowledge; his day job is using satellite data to improve flood models. <br /> <br />"As hydrologists we were pretty confident that this property wouldn't have a problem, and we told our neighbours," he told euronews. <br /> <br />Not everyone has a neighbour as knowledgeable as Javier, nor were they as lucky. <br /> <br />The whole area west of London was affected as England and Wales lived through their wettest winter in almost 250 years.
