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Images & Animations
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Credit
NASA image created by Jesse Allen, Earth Observatory using data obtained courtesy of the of NASA/GSFC/MITI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team. Image interpretation courtesy Dr. Bob Brakenridge, Dartmouth Flood Observatory
A month after devastating floods tore across northern Haiti, an analysis of RADARSAT SAR data shows just how widespread the floods were.
- Large Images: <LI>September 26, 2004 (2.7 Mb) <LI>August 1, 2001 (2.5 Mb)
To the east of Gonaives, some of the flood water has filled a lake basin, the top of which is visible in the lower right corner of the image. The thin white line across the bottom of the image is a road leading to Gonaives. The road has been submerged in the lake basin, though is still visible beneath the dark blue water.
In these false-color images, vegetation is bright red and water is black. Bare land is white and light blue. Clearly the hills around the city are bare, one of the primary reasons for the floods. Without trees to slow and absorb rainfall, the water rushed into depressions in the land and poured to the ocean beyond Gonaives.
Metadata
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Sensor
Terra/ASTER -
Start Date
2004-09-26 -
Event Start Date
2004-09-18 -
NH Image ID
12471 -
NH Event ID
10491 -
NH Posting Date
2004-09-28