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Chindwin River Flooding Production Date: 08/09/2015 Version 1.0 Glide Number: FL-2015-000089-MMR Analysis with Sentinel-1 Satellite Data Acquired 4 September 2015 and 20 March 2015 94°30'0"E 94°35'0"E 94°40'0"E 94°45'0"E 94°50'0"E 94°55'0"E 95°0'0"E 95°5'0"E Hunawng Mwehpe Kawngkan INDIA 25°0'0"N Hommalinn Na-nauk CHINA Airport Dhaka Homalin Town Map Extent 24°50'0"N Yegyaw MYANMAR Na-ta-kyaik Naypidaw Kondan 24°55'0"N Vientiane Payit THAILAND Thayagon 24°45'0"N Kyun-u Bongba Khulen Bangkok Yele Minbwe Ngobin This map illustrates satellite-detected flood waters in 24°50'0"N Tatkon western Sagaing Division in the areas of Homalin, Kyizu Hmangin Tamu, Phaungbyin and Mawlaik townships of Myanmar as imaged by the Sentinel-1 satellite on 4 Lawngmin 24°40'0"N Nawngpuse Tapan September 2015. Waters along the Chindwin have Nawngshu expanded and inundated lands on either sides of the Shwe Pyi river bank and as of 4 September 2015 a total of Aye Town Nawngbamu ~111,000 ha of lands were affected. Total surface 24°45'0"N C h i n d w i n area covered with water in the analysed area has increased from a pre-flood level of 0.4% to 2.9 % RMyenga i v e r during the flood period. This is a preliminary analysis 24°35'0"N and has not yet been validated in the field. Please Namponbon send ground feedback to UNITAR-UNOSAT. Nampwehlaing LEGEND 24°40'0"N City/Town Village 24°30'0"N Nampahok Airport Ingyintha Wetkauk Highway/Primary Rd. Mawnwe 24°35'0"N Myothit Secondary Rd. Town Pobyudaung International Boundary 24°25'0"N Manhein Township Boundary Pakwe Naungtaw Kangon Lemakhan Naungmakauk WATER EXTENT ANALYSIS Zaungkalaw 24°30'0"N Letpantha (Satellite-Based Classification) Satellite Detected Waters: [Sentinel-1 - 4 September 2015] Kyuntaw Myintha 24°20'0"N Satellite Detected Waters: Htingu [Sentinel-1 - 20 March 2015] Hlezeik Map Scale for A3: 1:350,000 Km Wayongon 0 2 4 6 8 10 24°25'0"N Wayontha Satellite Data (1): Sentinel-1 Paungbyin Imagery Dates: 4 September 2015 Town 24°15'0"N Resolution: 10 m Phonngbyin Copyright: Copernicus 2014 / ESA Airport Source: Sentinel-1 Scientific Data Hub Satellite Data (2): Sentinel-1 Imagery Dates: 20 March 2015 Kan-u Resolution: 10 m 24°20'0"N Mezali Copyright: Copernicus 2014 / ESA Yenan Source: Sentinel-1 Scientific Data Hub Thayetkon Road Data : Google Map Maker Tema 24°10'0"N Other Data: USGS, UNCS, NASA, NGA, MIMU, COD Analysis : UNITAR - UNOSAT Ontha Production: UNITAR - UNOSAT Analysis conducted with ArcGIS v10.3 24°15'0"N Coordinate System: WGS 1984 UTM Zone 46N Tamu Projection: Transverse Mercator Thadobauk Town Datum: WGS 1984 Ton Lon Units: Meter 24°5'0"N Kongyi The depiction and use of boundaries, geographic names and related data shown here are not warranted to be error-free nor do they imply official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. Chingin 24°10'0"N Shwe-inbin UNOSAT is a program of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), providing satellite imagery and related geographic information, 24°0'0"N research and analysis to UN humanitarian and development agencies and their implementing partners. This work by UNITAR/UNOSAT is licensed under a Maingnyaung Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 24°5'0"N Ywatha 23°55'0"N Disaster coverage by the Puttha International Charter 'Space and Major Disasters'. For more information on the Charter, which Kyaukchaw is about assisting the disaster relief organizations with multi- 24°0'0"N satellite data and information, visit www.disasterscharter.org 23°50'0"N Katun Sunle 23°55'0"N Zibyugon Contact Information: [email protected] 24/7 Hotline: +41 76 487 4998 94°15'0"E 94°20'0"E 94°25'0"E 94°30'0"E 94°35'0"E 94°40'0"E 94°45'0"E 94°50'0"E 23°45'0"N www.unitar.org/unosat.
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