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Flooding in China

Type of Event:	Flooding
Location of Event:	China; Chongqing, Hechuan, Mingliang in Sichuan Province
Date of Charter Activation:	19/07/2007
Charter Requestor:	National Disaster Reduction Center of China (NDRCC)
Project Management:	NDRCC

Description of Event

Widespread flooding continued in Sichuan province from end June with enormous damage to dams, roads, buildings and crops.
In Chongqing Municipality about 29.500 houses collapsed between 17 and 18 July as flash floods hit the city centre.

Images and/or Image Products Delivered under the Charter

ASAR image of Chongqing Flood, 17/07/2007
Source: Envisat ASAR
Acquired: 17/07/2007
Post-disaster radar image of the Chongqing area. Flood analysis by NDRCC.
Credit: Copyright ESA 2007
Image processing, map created 20/07/2007 by NDRCC.
Higher resolution version

ALOS image of Fujiang River, Chonqing area
Source: ALOS Palsar
Acquired: 14/07/2007
Severe flooding in the Fujiang basin. Inset map shows the flooded area around Chongqing.
Credit: Copyright Jaxa 2007
Image processing, map created 15/07/2007 by NDRCC.
Higher resolution version

Animations

Three-dimensional landscape of
flooded area in Chongqing city
Source: SPOT5 and DEM
Credit: Copyright NDRCC and CNES
AVI format (39 MB)

Additional imagery and photographic dossiers are available at:

http://www.ndrcc.gov.cn/