Global Flood Detection System - Version 2

An experimental system to detect and map in near-real time major river floods based on daily passive microwave satellite observations. The purpose is to identify and measure floods with potential humanitarian consequences after they occur.

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Flood status report for Ganges, automatically created on 5/31/2023 9:52 PM.

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Flood status report for Ganges

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Status: Green. Current satellite observations show 0 out of 22 areas (0%) having critically high flood magnitude.

The Ganges monitoring region consists of 22 areas that are analyzed daily, including the following rivers: Ganges.

This report does not provide early warning or forecasting information, but describes the current flood status of rivers based on the past 24h of satellite observations.

The status is determined by the number of areas with high flood magnitude (see below), as determined by the Global Flood Detection System based on passive microwave satellite observations of surface water. The status is set to "Red" if more than 10 areas or more than 30% of areas have high flood magnitude. The status is set to "Orange" if more than 5 or more than 10% of areas have high flood magnitude. Otherwise, the status is set to "Green".

Current Status of monitoring areas

Legend: green = no flood, orange = magnitude > 2 (small potential flood), red = magnitude > 4 (potential flood with high return period)


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Current surface water and potential flooded areas


Legend: Current surface water detected by satellite (source: JRC): blue signal scale = presence of water, yellow/red magnitude scale = unusual presence of water, indicating potential floods.
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Current Rainfall


Legend: Current rainfall detected by satellite (Source: NASA): areas of extreme rainfall (>50mm/day).
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Critical Areas

No areas are currently in critical state.


Status of all sites

The table below shows the flood magnitude in the past 16 days for all sites in this monitoring region.

Notes: X = No Data (or data being calculated). The data values of today can change if new data is acquired by the satellite.
Table legend: blue shades indicate flood magnitude (mouse over the box to see the value); magnitudes greater than 2 have an orange outline, magnitudes greater than 4 have a red outline.

IdDownloadArea DescriptionPixels (x100km2)
5/16/20235/31/2023
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12110 html   html Site 11691 ( River Ganges) 7
12072 html   html Site 11651 ( River Ganges) 7
12044 html   html Site 11623 ( River Ganges) 9
12037 html   html Site 11616 ( River Ganges) 8
12027 html   html Site 11606 ( River Ganges) 8
12016 html   html Site 11595 ( River Ganges) 8
12009 html   html Site 11588 ( River Ganges) 9
11996 html   html Site 11575 ( River Ganges) 9
11980 html   html Site 11559 ( River Ganges) 7
11969 html   html Site 11548 ( River Ganges) 9
11962 html   html Site 11539 ( River Ganges) 7
11960 html   html Site 11537 ( River Ganges) 7
11959 html   html Site 11536 ( River Ganges) 7
11955 html   html Site 11532 ( River Ganges) 8
11951 html   html Site 11528 ( River Ganges) 6
11950 html   html Site 11527 ( River Ganges) 4
11947 html   html Site 11524 ( River Ganges) 8
11946 html   html Site 11523 ( River Ganges) 7
11945 html   html Site 11522 ( River Ganges) 6
11941 html   html Site 11518 ( River Ganges) 6
11911 html   html Site 11488 ( River Ganges) 8
11901 html   html Site 11478 ( River Ganges) 8

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