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Cyclone Amphan in Bangladesh
Cyclone Amphan is expected to make landfall in Bangladesh on 20 May, on the coasts of India and Bangladesh between the Sagar Islands in West Bengal and the Hatiya Islands in Bangladesh.
The storm is currently Category Four on the Saffir-Simpson scale, but when it entered the Bay of Bengal on 18 May it was the strongest storm on record in the area and classified as a Super Cyclone. The storm had wind speeds of 270 kilometres per hour, but has since weakened to 200 kilometres per hour. The strong winds are expected to cause damage and the storm is forecast to bring heavy rain causing flooding.
Two million people have been evacuated in the area and are being placed in emergency shelters. The Coronavirus is complicating evacuations and emergency care, however, and the evacuees are expected to wear masks and gloves. To try to maintain distance between the evacuees, more than 12,000 shelters have been set up.
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| Type of Event: | Ocean Storm - Cyclone |
| Location of Event: | Bangladesh |
| Date of Charter Activation: | 2020-05-18 |
| Time of Charter Activation: | 18:59 |
| Time zone of Charter Activation: | UTC+09:00 |
| Charter Requestor: | ADRC UNITAR on behalf of United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) |
| Activation ID: | 652 |
| Project Management: | International Water Management Institute |
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Preliminary satellite-derived flood assessment report in Jessore, Satkhira and Khulna District, Bangladesh
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Copyright: Includes Pleiades material © CNES (2020), Distribution Airbus DS
Google Earth
Report produced by UNITAR / UNOSAT
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Acquired: 24/05/2020 and 25/05/2020
Source: Pleiades / Google Earth
Flood event dynamics in three severely affected districts in West Bengal, India
Copyright: RADARSAT-2 Data and Products © Maxar Technologies Ltd. (2020) - All Rights Reserved. RADARSAT is an official trademark of the Canadian Space Agency.
TerraSAR-X © DLR e.V. (2020), Distribution Airbus DS Geo GmbH
Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020)
Map produced by IWMI
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Acquired: RADARSAT-2: 22/05/2020
TerraSAR-X: 24/05/2020
Sentinel-1: 22/05/2020 and 25/05/2020
Source: RADARSAT-2 / TerraSAR-X / Sentinel-1
Temporal flood occurrence of critically affected districts in West Bengal, India
Copyright: Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020)
WorldView-2 © (2020) DigitalGlobe, Inc., Longmont CO USA 80503. DigitalGlobe and the DigitalGlobe logos are trademarks of DigitalGlobe, Inc. The use and/or dissemination of this data and/or of any product in any way derived there from are restricted. Unauthorized use and/or dissemination is prohibited
RADARSAT-2 Data and Products © Maxar Technologies Ltd. (2020) - All Rights Reserved. RADARSAT is an official trademark of the Canadian Space Agency.
TerraSAR-X © DLR e.V. (2020), Distribution Airbus DS Geo GmbH
Map produced by IWMI
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Acquired: Sentinel-1: 22/05/2020 and 25/05/2020
WorldView-2: 22/05/2020
RADARSAT-2: 22/05/2020
TerraSAR-X: 22/05/2020
Source: Sentinel-1 / WorldView-2 / RADARSAT-2 / TerraSAR-X
Monitoring of crop-affected areas from flooding in Bangladesh
Copyright: RADARSAT-2 Data and Products © Maxar Technologies Ltd. (2020) – All Rights Reserved
RADARSAT is an official mark of the Canadian Space Agency
Map produced by IWMI
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Acquired: 24/05/2020
Source: RADARSAT-2
Cyclone impact of Polders in Basirhat Taluk, North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India
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Acquired: 22/05/2020
Source: WorldView-2
River breach, Submerged houses, crop damages in Shulkuniabad village, Hasnabad Tehsil, North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India
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Acquired: 22/05/2020
Source: WorldView-2
Cyclone impact on Polders in Satkhira District, Khulna Division, southwestern Bangladesh
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Acquired: 22/05/2020
Source: WorldView-2
Flooding in Purba Medinipur District, West Bengal, India
Copyright: TerraSAR-X © DLR e.V. (2020), Distribution Airbus DS Geo GmbH
Sentinel-1 Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020)
Map produced by IWMI
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Acquired: TerraSAR-X: 24/05/2020
Sentinel-1: 19/05/2020
Source: TerraSAR-X / Sentinel-1
Post Cyclone Amphan Monitoring crop damages using satellite data in Bangladesh
Copyright: © JAXA
© CSA
USGS / NASA Landsat Program
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Acquired: Pre-event:
RADARSAT and Landsat 8: 20/05/2020
Post-event:
ALOS-2: 22/05/2020
Source: ALOS-2 / Landsat 8 / RADARSAT
Synoptic view of inundation in coastal areas of India and Bangladesh
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Acquired: 22/05/2020
Source: RADARSAT-2
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