Sinking River Deltas - Irrawaddy River

This elevation image shows that the Irrawaddy Delta in Burma (Myanmar) is clearly flat, much of it below five meters in elevation. This low elevation makes the delta particularly prone to flooding from storm surges.

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NASA image created by Robert Simmon and Jesse Allen, using SRTM elevation data provided courtesy of the University of Maryland’s Global Land Cover Facility. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published September 22, 2009
Data acquired February 11 - 22, 2000

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Space Shuttle > SRTM