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Islamic Republic of Iran - Satellite Detected Water Extent at the South of Urmia Lake

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Islamic Republic of Iran - Satellite Detected Water Extent at the South of Urmia Lake
Description
This map illustrates the satellite-detected waters extent south of Urmia Lake in the county of Mahabad in West Azerbaijan province of Iran as observed from the Landsat-8 image acquired on 16 April 2017. Within the area of 21,000 ha covered by this map; 2,970 ha of lands appear to be potentially affected which corresponds to 13% of the analyzed area. The flooded areas appear to be mainly agricultural zones and about 8 km of roads seem to be potentially affected. Please note that some areas were cloud covered and could not be analyzed.This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR - UNOSAT.
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UNOSAT
Publisher
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Temporal Coverage
2017-04-19
Date Issued
2017-04-27
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 2026-01-15.

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  • Citation
    UNOSAT (2017). Islamic Republic of Iran - Satellite Detected Water Extent at the South of Urmia Lake. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/3c0b8d3e-64aa-4d69-a600-accdfeefabb8 (dataset)
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