Assessing and mapping flood hazard, vulnerability and risk in the. The flood in assam is such a regular feature that today hardly anyone takes a serious note of it. By 24 september 2014, nearly 277 people in india and about 280 people in pakistan had died due to the floods. By 5 july, over 394,000 people had been affected by floods in assam state. In other words majuli is the first river island district in india. A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry. Death toll of human was raised to 36 out of which 23 were males and females. Assam with its vast network of rivers is prone to natural disasters like flood and. According to assam state disaster management authoritys flood report as of july 20 totally 12. This was released by honble chief minister of assam in 2011 sharma et al. During junejuly 2012, assam witnessed devastating floods due. Assam floods 2012 situation analysis 21 august 2012 india.
The brahmaputra floods refers to a catastrophic flood event that occurred in 2012 along the. In september 2014, the kashmir region suffered disastrous floods across many of its districts caused by torrential rainfall. Since, time immemorial erosion is a continuous process. Over the past two weeks, 124 people have lost their.
A total number of 686 villages were affected by the floods. The ircs overall plan of action for assam flood relief is as follows. With the given socioeconomic set up, the resil ience and. Farmers are marginal, and alternate income sources are few economic survey of assam.
About 4,25,732 livestock and poultry had also been affected. The indian state of jammu and kashmir, as well as the pakistani territories of azad kashmir, gilgitbaltistan and punjab were affected by these floods. Research articles satellite images for extraction of flood. This is a 45% increase since reports of flooding began on 2 july. I n r g h a m p a s s so p azad jain and associates.
The state of assam is frequently ravaged by the fury of mighty brahmaputra and its tributaries causing untold human misery and devastation of indescribable nature. Majuli has been declared as the 35th district of assam in may 2017. According to the assam state disaster management authority asdma, the worsthit of the 15 affected districts is karimganj, with over 180,000 people affected. Flood fill is a seed fill algorithm similar to boundary fill algorithm but sometimes when it is required to fill in an area that is not defined within a single color boundary we use flood fill instead of boundary fill for this purpose we can create a function or we can use a predefined function in the graphics. Steps to be taken by government to prevent floods damage in assam. Floods in assam causes, effects and solutions my india. Floods are an area of study of the discipline hydrology and are of significant concern in agriculture, civil engineering and public health flooding may occur as an overflow of water from water bodies, such as a river, lake, or ocean. Satellite data on floods remain a rich source of information that can provide disaster footprints of higher accuracy useful for assessing the disaster impact and taking up flood mitigation activities1,4,814. In the sense of flowing water, the word may also be applied to the inflow of the tide. English situation report on india about agriculture, shelter and nonfood items, flash flood and flood. Pdf satellite images for extraction of flood disaster footprints and. Satellite images for extraction of flood disaster footprints and assessing the disaster impact.
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