[SDI-Africa] before and after, Chambeshi River Floods, Zambia

[Kate Lance]

before and after, Chambeshi River Floods, Zambia 
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3
Zambia’s Chambeshi River had been transformed from a barely visible line to a broad lake more than 20 kilometers wide when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured the top image on February 6, 2007. Many rivers in southern Africa, including the Zambezi, pushed over their banks in early 2007 under the onslaught of an exceptionally early and heavy rainy season. In East Zambia alone, 23,751 households had been affected by flooding along the Chambeshi and other rivers as of February 7, reported the Dartmouth Flood Observatory.


 
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