Satellite Detected Waters in Central & Northern Bangladesh
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
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2017
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Title
Satellite Detected Waters in Central & Northern Bangladesh
Description
This map illustrates satellite-detected surface water extent in the central and northern parts of Bangladesh using a Sentinel-1 satellite image acquired on the 22 August 2017. The total analysed area is about 4,284,431 ha. In this analysed area; 1,099,369 ha (39%) of lands are likely affected. These lands are mainly cropland irrigated and rainfed areas and estimated to 1,039,350 ha. The population exposure analysis using WorldPop data shows that ~10,000,000 people are potentially affected by floods in the analysed zone: ~5,400,000 are located in Dhaka Division and ~2,750,000 in Rajshahi Division. Please note that for visualization purposes the analyzed area is wider than the extent of this map.This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR-UNOSAT.
Creator
UNOSAT
Publisher
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2017-08-23
Date Issued
2017-09-15
License
http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by-sa
Access Rights
Public
Date Added
August 23, 2025
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.
UNOSAT (2017). Satellite Detected Waters in Central & Northern Bangladesh. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/15df46b1-ce34-4c38-bc39-4bf521ae2cd0 (dataset)