Friday, May 28, 2010

New images and maps of Attabad

Whilst we wait for news from Pakistan, here are two new resources that readers may find useful.  First, NASA have released a new Aster image of the lake site, collected in the last few days.  This is available here, with a link to my blog (thanks to them for this).  The image shows the manner in which the lake has extended in the last few weeks - NASA have helpfully provided an image with the previous extents shown:


The unannotated image, this time orientated north-south, is also rather fine:


Alonside this, UNOSAT have released another map of the areas inundated by the flood.  This is available here, and looks like this:

We may see some landslides along the banks of the lake as the water level is drawn down by the breach, so this imagery may prove to be very useful.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks for this Dr Dave, it's very interesting. It's kind of surreal that the best source on a landslide in Pakistan is a UK blog.

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