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The monsoon season typically lasts from June to
September within the Mekong basin. Shortly after the onset of the
summer monsoon, the MODIS on the Terra satellite detected flooding
around the Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia.
In this false-colour image, taken on July 9, 2006,
the flood water is depicted in pale blue around the slightly darker
blue lake, mainly representing a myriad of rice fields and their
crops that are starting to grow during the wet season; natural vegetation
cover appears in bright green, and the remaining agricultural areas
of mainly bare soil appears in tan-pink colour. Clouds are light
blue and white.
In comparison, a different image taken approximately
a month earlier on June 16 shows central Cambodia before the rains
began; it shows a proportionally larger area of bare soil within
the agricultural areas where rice fields are being prepared for
the wet season crop.
Satellite: Terra
Bands Used: 7,2,1
Date Acquired: July 9, 2006 and June 16, 2006
Source: MODIS
Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC
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images: 1km,
500m
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