La Garonne a largement débordé entre Agen et Marmande comme le montre la comparaison ci-dessous entre une image prise par le satellite Sentinel-2 en décembre 2018 et une autre prise ce dimanche 15 décembre 2019 à la faveur d’une éclaircie (plein écran, animation): Les inondations sont aussi visibles le long de l’Adour entre Dax et […]
Several areas in Nebraska experienced record flooding this past week.
In the Landslide blog Dave Petley has analyzed Planet images of the Pashgor debris flow in Afghanistan (here and here). Here I used two Sentinel-2 images (before and after the event) to show the path of the debris flow from the high mountain area to the Panjshir Valley. Sentinel-2 images have a lower spatial resolution […]
[This post was written by Simon Gascoin and Sylvain Ferrant] The Lao News Agency reported that the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam collapsed on Monday causing catastrophic flash floods. « The disaster has claimed several human lives [and] left hundreds of people missing, » the agency reported. Construction of the Xe-Pian Xe-Namnoy dam began in 2013. Commercial operations were […]
Le 1er avril est le moment privilégié par les hydrologues pour caractériser le potentiel hydrologique du manteau neigeux. Dans le cadre de l’OPCC [1] nous avons compilé différents indicateurs [2] :
Hurricane Harvey hit Texas on August 25. The first Sentinel-1 image of Houston since landfall was acquired on Aug 29 at 00:26 UTC. I’m writing this post at 21:09 UTC. As reported by the local news website chron.com « The most severe flooding is around the Highway 90 and Eastgate areas ». This is also what we […]
These Sentinel-2 images show the extent of the recent flooding near the border between Arkansas and Missouri on Apr 24, 2017 (36°30’N 90°38’W). The left image is a natural color composite (similar to what our eyes could see if we were in orbit). The right image is a color representation of the Normalized Difference Water […]
The Google Earth Blog spotted the recent Queensland floods in Sentinel-2 imagery. The Sentinels provide systematic coverage of the land areas, which facilitates the detection of changes due to natural hazards. Hence we can compare this Sentinel-2A image with another one that was captured last year during the same season to better highlight the extent […]
The remote sensing company Planet has published images, which were captured by its fleet of nano-satellites, of Lake Bakun on the island of Borneo [1]. Planet tells us that this artificial lake is the largest lake in Southeast Asia since its flooding in 2011. Yet it is not visible on mapping web services like Bing […]