Oti & White Volta overflow their banks, Togo, Ghana

Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 02 September 2020 from 18:10:11 to 18:10:36 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 14 September 2020 from 18:10:11 to 18:10:36 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 26 September 2020 from 18:10:12 to 18:10:37 UTC
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Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 08 October 2020 from 18:10:12 to 18:10:37 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): Emergency, natural disaster, wet season, rainfall, flooding, river, Togo, Ghana.
Fig. 1 - S1 (02.09.2020) - This view shows the White Volta (Nakembe) river at west, in NE Ghana & Oti (Pendjari) river at east in Togo.
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Fig. 2 - S1 (14.09.2020) - Both rivers have overflowed their banks on this mid-September view.
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Fig. 3 - S1 (26.09.2020) - The White Volta flood was larger but came back to normal faster.
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Fig. 4 - S1 (08.10.2020) - The flooding of the Oti river propagates downstream while the situation does not improve much upstream.
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