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Flooding in France

Type of Event:	Flooding
Location of Event:	France and Luxembourg
Date of Charter Activation:	04/10/2006
Charter Requestor:	French Civil Protection
Project Management:	CNES

Description of Event

Record-breaking rainfall since mid-September in the Moselle basin in the border region between France and Luxembourg has caused the declaration of a state of high alert in the area. Heavy flooding was reported at Metz, along the Sarre and Moselle rivers.

Images and/or Image Products Delivered under the Charter

Record Flooding 1982-83 Spot 5 Reference Map Moselle Scale 1:200,000 Source: Spot 5 Acquired: 19/07/2003 Credit: Copyright CNES 2003 Image processing, map created 05/10/2006 by SERTIT. Higher resolution version	Record Flooding 1982-83 Spot 5 Reference Map Woippy Thionville Cattenom Scale 1:100,000 Source: Spot 5 Acquired: 19/07/2003 Credit: Copyright CNES 2003 Image processing, map created 05/10/2006 by SERTIT. Higher resolution version
Record Flooding 1982-83 Spot 5 Reference Map Woippy Uckange Thionville Scale 1:100,000 Source: Spot 5 Acquired: 19/07/2003 Credit: Copyright CNES 2003 Image processing, map created 05/10/2006 by SERTIT. Higher resolution version	Record Flooding 1982-83 Spot 5 Reference Map Woippy Hagondange Thionville Scale 1:100,000 Source: Spot 5 Acquired: 19/07/2003 Credit: Copyright CNES 2003 Image processing, map created 05/10/2006 by SERTIT. Higher resolution version
Record Flooding 1982-83 Spot 5 Reference Map Metz Hauconcourt Uckange Scale 1:100,000 Source: Spot 5 Acquired: 19/07/2003 Credit: Copyright CNES 2003 Image processing, map created 05/10/2006 by SERTIT. Higher resolution version	Record Flooding 1982-83 Spot 5 Reference Map Pont à Mousson Metz Scale 1:100,000 Source: Spot 5 Acquired: 19/07/2003 Credit: Copyright CNES 2003 Image processing, map created 05/10/2006 by SERTIT. Higher resolution version
Moselle Spot Spacemap Seille Scale 1:100,000 Source: Spot 4, 5 Acquired: 09/10/2006 (Spot 5), 27/06/2000 (Spot 4) Credit: Copyright CNES 2000, 2006 Image processing, map created 09/10/2006 by SERTIT. Higher resolution version	Moselle Radarsat Spacemap Seille Scale 1:100,000 Source: RADARSAT-1 Acquired: 07/10/2006, 03/11/2004 Credit: Copyright CSA 2004, 2006 Image processing, map created 08/10/2006 by SERTIT. Higher resolution version
Moselle Spot 5 Crisis Spacemap Scale 1:200,000 Source: Spot 4, 5 Acquired: 09/10/2006 (Spot 5), 27/06/2000 (Spot 4) Credit: Copyright CNES 2000, 2006 Image processing, map created 09/10/2006 by SERTIT. Higher resolution version

High-resolution imagery and additional data are available at:

http://sertit.u-strasbg.fr/documents/moselle_2006/moselle_06.html