Padma River – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:28:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Padma River – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 The Changing Padma River https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/08/the-changing-padma-river/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:28:43 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1786144 More]]> Padma River erosion animation
NASA Earth Observatory

Landsat observations have charted the erosion of the banks of the ever-changing Padma River, a major distributary of the Ganges in Bangladesh. This is vividly shown in this animation produced by NASA Earth Observatory, which “shows 14 false-color images of the Padma river between 1988 and 2018 taken by the Landsat 5 and 8 satellites. All of the images include a combination of shortwave infrared, near infrared, and visible light to highlight differences between land and water.” More on the erosion of the Padma River here.

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