Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Introduction
Applications of Satellite Missions on Submitted To,
Md. Esraz-Ul-Zannat
Submitted By,
Tajkia Jahan Rakhi
Extreme Natural Hazard incidents occur in the Earth's
system, resulting in human death or injury, as well as
H azards and D isaster M anagement Assistant Professor, DURP,
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damage or loss of valuable resources including buildings, Satellite Names Use in Hazards and Spatial Source of the Data
communications, agriculture, forestry, and the natural 3. Flood
Disaster Management Resolution
environment. Over the last four decades, economic losses Surface topography, ocean https://www.copernicus.eu/en/ Before Flood After Flood
from natural disasters have increased by a factor of and land surface color about- (16/03/2017) (19/07/2019)
eight, caused by the increased vulnerability of the global Sentinel-3 OLCI observations and 300m< copernicus/infrastructure/disc
society, but also due to an increase in the number of monitoring. over-our-satellites
weather-related disasters. The management of natural
disasters requires a large amount of multi-temporal Ocean monitoring https://earth.esa.int/eogateway
spatial data. Specific satellite data can be used at several (phytoplankton, suspended /instruments/meris
stages of disaster management, including prevention, Envisat Meris matter), atmosphere (water 260m x 290m
preparedness, relief, and reconstruction, it has primarily vapor, CO2, clouds,
been utilized for warning and tracking in practice to date. aerosols), and land Figure-3: Satellite images of Flood in Bengal
In recent decades, remote sensing through satellites has (vegetation index, global
become a disaster preparedness and warning tool for coverage, moisture.) 4. Atmosphere and Air Pollution
cyclones, droughts, flooding, earthquakes, volcanic Monitoring the https://creodias.eu/
eruptions, wildfires and landslides. concentration of CO, NO2 High CO concentration, Ghana High NO2 concentration, India
Sentinel-5P and O3 in the air. Monitoring (27/01/2021) (27/01/2021)

Objectives the UV aerosol index 7 x 3.5km

(AER_AI) and various
Obtaining a list of satellites that are used to identify, geophysical parameters of
warn, and track hazards and disasters. clouds (Cloud).

Analyzing the use of various satellites in various Examples of Applications High SO2 concentration,
Italy(31/05/2019)
High CH4 concentration,
Turkmenistan (01/01/2020)
fields of hazard and disaster management.
1. Cyclones

Accumulated Data At 4 a.m. EDT (0800 UTC) on Oct. 3, 2018 the MODIS
instrument that flies aboard NASA's Terra satellite
Use in Hazards Spatial gathered infrared data on Tropical Cyclone Idai.
Satellite and Disaster Resolution Source of the Strongest thunderstorms circled the center where Figure-4: Emission of CO, NO2, SO2, CH4 in Different parts of the world.
Names Management Data cloud top temperatures were as cold as minus 70
degrees Fahrenheit (minus 56.6 Celsius) and 5. Wildfires 6. Volcanos
Monitoring soil and 10m, 20m, https://www.coper appeared in red.
water cover, inland and 60m, nicus.eu/en/about- Mount Etna, Italy
Sentinel-2 L2A waterways and depending on copernicus/infrast Figure-1: Satellite image of Tropical Cyclone Idai Wildfires in Croatia (26/12/2018)
(17/07/2017)
Sentinel-2 L1C coastal areas, the ructure/discover- at Mozambique's coast.
monitoring of burnt wavelength. our-satellites
areas. 2. Drought
Vegetation 15 m for the https://www.usgs. Before Drought During Drought
monitoring, land panchromatic gov/core-science- (05/02/2019) (31/05/2019)
Landsat 8 cover maps, band and systems/nli/landsa
change monitoring 30 m for the t/landsat-8
etc. rest. Figure-5: Wildfire Data created by Figure-6: Volcanic eruption in Mount
Pierre Markuse, visualizes wildfires Etna on the east coast of Sicily, Italy in
Climate change https://www.coper using Sentinel-2 data. 2018.
Sentinel-3 monitoring, active nicus.eu/en/about-
SLSTR fire detection, land 500m-1km copernicus/infrast Conclusions
and sea surface ructure/discover- After Drought
temperature our-satellites (14/08/2019) The normalized difference moisture Index (NDMI)
monitoring. is used to detect vegetation water content and Satellite missions play an important role in hazards and disaster management,
monitor droughts. Negative values of NDMI especially during the warning and response or monitoring phases. The possible
https://modis.gsfc. correspond to barren soil. Values around zero (- applications of satellites using remote sensing technology in disaster
MODIS Wildfires and 1 x 1 km nasa.gov/data/data 0.2 to 0.4) generally correspond to water stress. management are briefly illustrated in this poster. It also showcased the recent
MOD14/MYD1 4 Cyclones. prod/mod14.php High, positive values represent high canopy and existing developments in satellite missions that are relevant to hazards and
without water stress (approximately 0.4 to 1). disaster management. A huge amount of satellite data plays a major role in
Figure-2: Satellite images of Chennai Drought in 2019 studying climate change disasters.