FIMbench License
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Copyright (c) 2026 Surface Dynamics Modeling Lab (SDML), University of Alabama.

This project is distributed under two licenses, according to the type of
material. The software and source code are licensed under the Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). The FIMbench dataset is
licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
License (CC BY-NC 4.0).

"Software and source code" refers to the FIMbench Python package and the
accompanying scripts in this repository. "FIMbench dataset" refers to the
benchmark Flood Inundation Maps (FIMs) and their derived extents, catalog, and
metadata distributed through the FIMbench database, regardless of where they are
hosted.


Software and source code
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
License. To view a copy of this license, visit
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You are free to share and adapt the material for any purpose, including
commercially, provided that you give appropriate credit, provide a link to the
license, and indicate if changes were made. You may not apply legal terms or
technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the
license permits.


FIMbench dataset
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0
International License. To view a copy of this license, visit
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

You are free to share and adapt the material, provided that you give appropriate
credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made, and
that you do not use the material for commercial purposes. You may not apply legal
terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything
the license permits.


Disclaimer
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The material is provided "as is", without warranties of any kind. The licenses
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Acknowledgment
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This research was supported by the Cooperative Institute for Research to
Operations in Hydrology (CIROH) with funding under award NA22NWS4320003 from the
NOAA Cooperative Institute Program.
