{"id":781027,"date":"2024-04-18T10:33:52","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=781027"},"modified":"2024-04-18T10:33:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:33:52","slug":"dubai-floods-seen-from-space-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=781027","title":{"rendered":"Dubai floods seen from space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"modal__tab-content--details\">\n<div class=\"modal__tab-description\">\n<p>Dubai has been hit with torrential rain that flooded the desert city \u2013 submerging roads and vehicles and disrupting flights. More than <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UAEmediaoffice\/status\/1780326720588906951?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1780326720588906951%7Ctwgr%5Ec87d586e3edccf0d0e0a4a4eb4fc67438d755ca4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thenationalnews.com%2Fnews%2Fuae%2F2024%2F04%2F16%2Flive-weather-rain-dubai%2F\" target=\"_blank\">250 mm of precipitation<\/a> was said to have fallen across the United Arab Emirates in less than 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>This Copernicus Sentinel-2 image, captured yesterday 17 April, is a false colour composite which highlights flooded areas in turquoise. Red patches in the image indicate vegetation.<\/p>\n<p>Zoom in to explore this image at its full 10 m resolution.<\/p>\n<p>Sentinel-2 provides crucial data for flood monitoring and management, enabling timely and accurate assessment of flood extent and severity through high-resolution satellite imagery.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/ESA_Multimedia\/Images\/2024\/04\/Dubai_floods_seen_from_space?rand=772187\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai has been hit with torrential rain that flooded the desert city \u2013 submerging roads and vehicles and disrupting flights. More than 250 mm of precipitation was said to have&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":781024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-781027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=781027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/781024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=781027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=781027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=781027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}