Monsoon severely floods south-west India

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 28 July 2018 from 00:40:18 to 00:40:43 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 02 August 2018 from 00:48:12 to 00:48:37 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 09 August 2018 from 00:40:18 to 00:40:43 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 14 August 2018 from 00:48:13 to 00:48:38 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Atmosphere, hydrology, climate, land, rain, precipitations, monsoon, river, lake, flooding, India
Fig. 1 - S1 (02 & 14.08.2018) - vh polarn, σ0 processing with colour map - South Karnataka (animation, before, after).
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Fig. 2 - Monsoon caused unusually high rainfalls in the Kerala state in South India.
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Fig. 3 - 35 of the state's 42 dams have been opened to prevent failure; this show the dams before, near their highest.
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Fig. 4 - Kerala state; more than 324 people have been killed as a result of the flood, with 85000 people displaced.
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Fig. 5 - It is the worst flooding in Kerala state since 1924 at least.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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