Assessment of the Catastrophic Asia Floods and Potentially Affected Population in Summer 2020 Using VIIRS Flood Products

Assessment of the Catastrophic Asia Floods and Potentially Affected Population in Summer 2020 Using VIIRS Flood Products

Since 2 June 2020, unusual heavy and continuous rainfall from the Asian summer monsoon rainy season caused widespread catastrophic floods in many Asian countries, including primarily the two most populated countries, China and India. To detect and monitor the floods and estimate the potentially affe...

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Main Authors: Sanmei Li, Mitchell D. Goldberg, William Sjoberg, Lihang Zhou, Sreela Nandi, Nazmi Chowdhury, William Straka, Tianshu Yang, Donglian Sun
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-09-01
Series:Remote Sensing
Subjects:
Asia floods
summer 2020
VIIRS
flood mapping
population potentially exposed (PPE) to floods
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/19/3176

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