Flooding hits North Korea

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 12 August 2018 at 21:30:58 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 24 August 2018 at 21:30:58 UTC
Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 31 August 2018 at 02:15:59 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 05 September 2018 at 21:30:59 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Atmosphere, hydrology, climate, land, rain, precipitations, river, flooding.
Fig. 1 - S1 (24.08.2018) - vv,vh,ndi(vh,vv) colour composite - Floods in Wŏnsan, ~5th biggest city in North Korea.
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After a prolonged heatwave had hit the Korean Peninsula in July (killing millions of livestock & damaging crops), severe rainfalls flooded North Korea.
Fig. 2 - S1 (24.08.2018) - Large flooding in low lying cropland west of the Bay.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (31.08.2018) - 11,8,2 colour composite - A week later, land's still soaked but most water cover's gone
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Fig. 4 - S1 (24.08.2018) - Rivers flooded their bed near Hamhung, North Korea's 2nd largest city.
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Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2024, processed by VisioTerra.
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