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PIA21928: Extent of Texas Flooding Shown in New NASA Map
NASA's Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at JPL acquired this flood proxy map of Southeastern Texas that are likely flooded as a result of Hurricane Harvey, shown by light blue pixels.
 Target Name:  Earth
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  ARIA 
 Spacecraft:  ALOS-2
 Instrument:  PALSAR-2 
 Product Size:  1237 x 1222 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA21928.tif (4.537 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA21928.jpg (367.5 kB)  

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The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, created this Flood Proxy Map depicting areas of Southeastern Texas that are likely flooded as a result of Hurricane Harvey, shown by light blue pixels. The map is derived from synthetic aperture radar amplitude images from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) ALOS-2 PALSAR-2 satellite, taken before (July 30, 2017) and after (August 27, 2017) Hurricane Harvey made landfall. The map covers an area of 135 square miles (350 square kilometers). Each pixel measures about 538 square feet (50 square meters). Local ground observations provided anecdotal preliminary validation. This flood proxy map should be used as guidance to identify areas that are likely flooded, and may be less reliable over urban areas. ALOS-2 data were accessed through the International Charter.

For more information about ARIA, visit http://aria.jpl.nasa.gov.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/JAXA/METI/Google Earth

Image Addition Date:
2017-08-30