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2018 August Kerala Floods, India
A joint team of researchers from the University of Kerala and Michigan Technological University, US, have come out with an inundation map using satellite images to assess the extent of flooding that caused widespread devastation in Kerala last month. The team comprising Sajin Kumar, Assistant Professor, and Vishnu C.L., Research Associate, University of Kerala, and Thomas Oommen, Associate Professor, Michigan Technological University, used the data from the European Space Agency's radar satellite Sentinel to map the inundated areas in Kerala during and following the floods. The map shows that the wetlands consisting of low-lying Kuttanad in the south, the kole lands of Thrissur in the north, and the backwater system experienced significant increase in water level owing to the floods triggered by torrential rain. While the floodwaters in most of the inundated land had already begun receding by August 21, the water level in Kuttanad and the kole lands were slow to decrease. Part of the flood map is shown below. Contact us for more detail on the flood map.
