Sentinel-1-based analysis of the severe flood over Pakistan 2022

Roth, Florian; Bauer-Marschallinger, Bernhard; Tupas, Mark Edwin; Reimer, Christoph; Salamon, Peter; Wagner, Wolfgang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-3305-2023

Articles | Volume 23, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-3305-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-3305-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 10

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23 Oct 2023

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Sentinel-1-based analysis of the severe flood over Pakistan 2022

Florian Roth, Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger, Mark Edwin Tupas, Christoph Reimer, Peter Salamon, and Wolfgang Wagner

Data sets

Sentinel-1 based analysis of the Pakistan Flood in 2022 F. Roth, B. Bauer-Marschallinger, M. E. Tupas, C. Reimer, P. Salamon, and W. Wagner https://doi.org/10.48436/zvvmh-nan78

Short summary

In August and September 2022, millions of people were impacted by a severe flood event in Pakistan. Since many roads and other infrastructure were destroyed, satellite data were the only way of providing large-scale information on the flood's impact. Based on the flood mapping algorithm developed at Technische Universität Wien (TU Wien), we mapped an area of 30 492 km² that was flooded at least once during the study's time period. This affected area matches about the total area of Belgium.