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21 October 2013 FL-2013-00001-IND M a p p i n g F l o o d s i n N o r t h e r n I n d i a : S t a t e s o f U t t a r a k h a n d a n d U t t a r a P r a d e s h u s i n g N A S A ' s S a t e l l i t e I m a g e s Version 1.0

In June 2013, North experienced heavy rainfall that triggered devastating floods and landslides in the states of , and . Map prepared by: Data Provided by: Crisis Satellite data : MODIS Terra / Aqua Index map As of 20 June 2013, official figures state that more than 190 people have died and with thousands missing and homeless. Damage to bridges and roads left almost Resolution : 250m 73,000 people trapped in various places. Image date : June 19 - 20, 2013 Source : NASA Legend Swollen river width with an average of 15-20km along the banks of major Yamuna river as viewed by NASA’s MODIS Terra/Aqua images explains the scale of flooding Pre-flood Image : MODIS Terra / Aqua Resolution : 250m Flood Water extent (20 June 2013) Rivers ± particularly in the highly flood affected states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. On 17 June 2013 the state of Uttarakhand received more than 340 millimetres (13 in) Image date : May 2013 Rural road of rainfall, which is 375 percent above the normal benchmark of 65.9 mm rainfall during a normal . This cloudburst caused heavy floods in Uttarakhand as Source : NASA Pre-Flood River Line (2013) Urban road well as the neighbouring state of Himachal Pradesh. In the city of Dehra Dun, capital of Uttarakhand, this was the wettest day during the month of June in over five q® Airport Urbanized area decades. Heavy rainfall for four consecutive days as well as melting snow during summer aggravated the floods further. Baseline Imagery : MODIS Terra May 28, 2013 !( Major flood affected districts in Uttarakhand includes and in U.P. districts of , Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Muzaffarnagar, Aligarh, Badaun, Lakhimpur Kheri, Source : NASA Villages/towns Administration boundary 0 10 20 40 60 80 Bahraich, Ramnagar. This map shows recent flooding in the States of Uttarakhand and Uttara Praadesh on the river Ganga which were mapped using MODIS Terra GIS Data : IWMI Water Data Portal Flood Analysis : IWMI Kilometers / Aqua satellite data (19th June and 20th June, 2013). For the past few days approx. 530 million Indian Rupees worth of crop loss due to flooding. Projection : Geographic, WGS84 The depiction and use of international boundaries, geographic names and related data shown in these Map Area This analysis also used Pre river line MODIS data from 2012 to show identify flood water only. Please note that water bodies likely reflect an underestimation of all maps are based on the sources they have been drawn from and quoted; these are neither error-free nor do they imply official endorsement or the position of IWMI flood-affected areas within the map extent due to cloud, atmospheric variations and other reasons. This analysis has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to IWMI.

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