Southern Brazil Submerged

This map reveals the depth of floodwater that covered Rio Grande do Sul in May 2024.

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NASA Earth Observatory floodwater depth map by Lauren Dauphin, using FwDET data processed and provided by Dinuke Munasinghe/NASA/JPL-Caltech. FwDET development led by Sagy Cohen/University of Alabama. Primary input for FwDET includes the ARIA/OPERA DSWx-HLS data product provided by Alexander Handwerger/NASA/JPL-Caltech. HLS Version-2.0, an input of DSWx-HLS, was developed at NASA GSFC. Story by Kathryn Hansen.

Published May 31, 2024
Data acquired May 6, 2024

Sources:

Landsat 8 > OLI

Landsat 9 > OLI-2

Sentinel-2

Space Shuttle > SRTM

Collection:

Applied Sciences