Lake Albert flooding makes 4800 homeless in DRC

Sentinel-3 SRAL LAND acquired on 26 September, 23 October, 19 November, 16 December 2019 at 19:28:50 UTC
Sentinel-3 SRAL LAND acquired on 06 October, 02 & 29 November, 26 December 2019 at 07:52:15 UTC
Sentinel-3 SRAL LAND acquired on 06 October, 02 & 29 November, 26 December 2019 at 19:30:28 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 17 November & 29 December 2019 at 03:35:05 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 14 November & 29 December 2019 at 08:12:39 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Flooding, emergency, natural disaster, land, Great rift valley, DRC, Uganda.
Fig. 1 - S2 (14.11.2019) - 11,8,2 colour composite - View before Lake Albert overflowed its banks in Mahagi territory (Ituri).
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Fig. 2 - S2 (29.12.2019) - 11,8,2 colour composite - Maximum extent of the flooding.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (17.11.2019) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) colour composite - View before the flooding, which destroyed 1200 houses among 45 fisher camps.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (29.12.2019) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) colour composite - Maximum extent of the flooding, it left 4800 people homeless..
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Fig. 5 - S3 SRAL (26.09.2019 to 26.12.2019) - Height from ocog altimeter range, 20hz C-band - Lake Albert height at successive acquisitions.
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