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Floods in Bangladesh
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Floods in Bangladesh |
| Description |
Northeastern Bangladesh disappeared under monsoon floods as rains drenched the region in June 2006. By June 21, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image, the floods stretched across hundreds of kilometers of what had been dry land a month earlier. According to Reuters, [ http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DHA197717.htm ] the floods claimed nine lives, made 10,000 homeless, and marooned more than a million by June 18. The monsoon rains typically last from June to September. These satellite images of the floods combine MODIS' observations of shortwave and near-infrared wavelengths of light with visible light to allow water to stand out against the land. Water is black and dark blue. Plant-covered land is green, and clouds are pale blue and white. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_Bangladesh/2006172 ] of Bangladesh in both infrared and photo-like natural color. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Bangladesh
| Title |
Floods in Bangladesh |
| Description |
Northeastern Bangladesh disappeared under monsoon floods as rains drenched the region in June 2006. By June 21, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS [ http://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov ]) on NASA's Aqua [ http://aqua.nasa.gov/ ] satellite captured the top image, the floods stretched across hundreds of kilometers of what had been dry land a month earlier. According to Reuters, [ http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/DHA197717.htm ] the floods claimed nine lives, made 10,000 homeless, and marooned more than a million by June 18. The monsoon rains typically last from June to September. These satellite images of the floods combine MODIS' observations of shortwave and near-infrared wavelengths of light with visible light to allow water to stand out against the land. Water is black and dark blue. Plant-covered land is green, and clouds are pale blue and white. The MODIS Rapid Response Team provides daily images [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?FAS_Bangladesh/2006172 ] of Bangladesh in both infrared and photo-like natural color. NASA images courtesy the MODIS Rapid Response Team [ http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov ] at NASA GSFC. |
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Floods in Bangladesh: Natura
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nasa, nasanaturalhazards
* eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/ima
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Bangladesh_AMO_2006172
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IMAGE |
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image |
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2006-06-21 |
| creator |
NASA -- NASA Image Of The Day |
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Bangladesh_AMO_2006172 |
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