File:Drought in France.jpg
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English: France, in addition to the extreme temperatures of early August 2020, is struggling with a severe drought. According to reports from the Ministry of Ecological Transition, on 1 September, 76 departments exceeded the surveillance threshold and implemented water restriction measures to cope with drought. There are severe damages to the agricultural sectors, moreover, two nuclear reactors have been shut down because the cooling process was difficult to manage due to the scarcity of water. This image shows the Normalised Difference Moisture Index (NDMI) derived from data acquired by one of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellites on 9 August 2020 for the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region, in western France. The NDMI provides values representative of the amount of water present in the soil and vegetation, and in this particular visualisation shows, in grey tones, the areas with severe water deficit. The Copernicus Emergency Management Service includes a European Drought Observatory which contains maps and report on ongoing drought episodes. In addition to the use of data derived from the satellites of the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission, drought monitoring can be carried out with data obtained from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission. The RADAR data, independent of cloud cover, obtained by the Sentinel-1 mission are particularly suitable for describing dynamics between the dry and wet seasons. |
Date | 3 September 2020 (upload date) |
Source | Drought in France |
Author | European Union , Copernicus Sentinel-2 imagery |
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