Floods in Iran

Heavy rains caused deadly flash floods in Iran.

Two days of heavy rain spurred flash floods throughout Iran’s Fars and Bushehr Provinces starting on January 10, 2004. Iran’s official news agency reported that 6 people have died in Southern Fars Province, and 50 villages have been evacuated. The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite captured this false-color image of flooding in Bushehr on January 12, 2004. The image shows light-blue ponds of water in areas that were dry on November 7, 2003, lower image. In these images, vegetation is bright green, clouds are light blue, and bare earth is pink. The devastating floods in Southern Fars are southeast of the floods shown here, hidden by the clouds.

The high resolution images provided above are at MODIS’ maximum resolution of 250 meters per pixel.

Metadata

  • Sensor

    Terra/MODIS

  • Start Date

    2004-01-12

  • Event Start Date

    2004-01-11

  • NH Image ID

    11905

  • NH Event ID

    10245

  • NH Posting Date

    2004-01-13