Historic Louisiana Floods – August 2016

Heavy rainfall began Friday, August 12, 2016 in Louisiana, with areas reaching almost 3 feet of rain water, causing local rivers to reach historic flood levels. Thousands were forced to evacuate, there are at least 13 dead, and many reported missing. Areas in South Louisiana in and around Lafayette and Baton Rouge were affected most.

Twenty parishes in Louisiana—Acadia, Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Avoyelles, Evangeline, East Feliciana, West Feliciana, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson Davis, Lafayette, Pointe Coupee, St. Helena, St. Landry, St. Martin, St. Tammany, Washington, Tangipahoa, and Vermillion—were declared major federal disaster areas.

Watson, LA—about 20 miles northeast of Baton Rouge—experienced 31.39 inches of rain, White Bayou, LA saw 26.14 inches. Livingston ended up with 25.52 inches. Baton Rouge received over 19 inches.

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PDFs of satellite imagery and maps created from International Charter Data by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Regional Application Center Team:

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Related News and Resources:

Flood Proxy Map (FPM) covering an area of 50-by-90 miles, including Lafayette, Louisiana, derived from post-event Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) amplitude images acquired by the RADARSAT-2 satellite on 16 August 2016 – Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at JPL/Catech

Deluge in Louisiana – NASA

NASA analyses deadly Louisiana flooding – NASA

Floods in the State of Louisiana – DMCii

Before and after: Louisiana flooding – BBC News

August 2016: Louisiana flooding – NOAA

To view maps, satellite imagery of affected areas of flooding and statistical data on the floods follow the links below:

http://floodobservatory.colorado.edu/Events/2016USA4388/2016USA4388.html

Geospatial Information and Remotely Sensed Imagery: 201608_Flood_US_Data_Sources26August2016

Louisiana swipe map http://disasterresponse.maps.arcgis.com/apps/StorytellingSwipe/index.html?appid=2e499ec7eb784237bd70fb16ae0f5dcf

ESRI http://arcg.is/2br512n

HDDS http://hdds.usgs.gov/digital-l ibrary

Copernicus EMS Louisiana Flood Maps link under 2016 August Flood US:

http://hdds.usgs.gov/digital-library

3 ESA TIF Kentwood Delination (Aug16,17) and Reference (Aug27, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/criteria?event=201608_Flood_US&ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_PRODUCTS_ESA_Kentwood_Pre_and_20160817&field=BATCH_NAME

4 ESA TIF Opelousas Delination (Aug15,16,17) and Reference (Aug02, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/criteria?event=201608_Flood_US&ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_PRODUCTS_ESA_Opelousas_Pre_and_20160817&field=BATCH_NAME

4 ESA TIF New Iberia Delination (Aug15,16,17) and Reference (Apr30, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_ PRODUCTS_ESA_New_Iberia_Pre_ and_20160817&field=BATCH_NAME

3 ESA TIF Hammond Delination (Aug16,17) and Reference (Aug27, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_ PRODUCTS_ESA_Hammond_Pre_and_ 20160817&field=BATCH_NAME

4 ESA TIF Eunice Delination (Aug15,16,17) and Reference (Aug03, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_ PRODUCTS_ESA_Eunice_Pre_and_ 20160817&field=BATCH_NAME

4 ESA TIF Crowley Delination (Aug15,16,17) and Reference (Aug03, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_ PRODUCTS_ESA_Crowley_Pre_and_ 20160817&field=BATCH_NAME

3 ESA TIF Amite City Delination (Aug16,17) and Reference (Aug27, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_ PRODUCTS_ESA_Amitecity_Pre_ and_20160817&field=BATCH_NAME

4 ESA TIF Lafayette Delination (Aug15,16,17) and Reference (Aug02, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_ PRODUCTS_ESA_Lafayette_Pre_ and_20160817&field=BATCH_NAME

3 ESA TIF Baton Rouge Delination (Aug16,17) and Reference (Aug27, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_ PRODUCTS_ESA_Baton_Rouge_Pre_ and_20160817&field=BATCH_NAME

4 ESA TIF Abbeville Delination (Aug15,16,17) and Reference (Aug10, 2015) Map published

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_MAP_ PRODUCTS_ESA_ABBEVILLE_MAPS& field=BATCH_NAME

126 CAP (Aug 17)

https://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/ criteria?event=201608_Flood_US &ordered=201608_Flood_US_CAP_ AERIAL_231171_20160817&field= BATCH_NAME

https://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/ criteria?event=201608_Flood_US &ordered=201608_Flood_US_CAP_ AERIAL_231172_20160817&field= BATCH_NAME

JAXA_PALSAR2 has been posted to HDDS

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/d ata/list/disaster_restricted/2 01608_Flood_US/data/SATELLITE/ NON_INGESTED/JAXA

KARI_KOMPSAT5 has been posted to HDDS

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/d ata/list/disaster_restricted/2 01608_Flood_US/data/SATELLITE/ NON_INGESTED/KARI

Data Sources (Aug 18)

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/d ata/list/disaster/201608_Flood _US/docs_misc/Data_Sources

15 GeoEye (Aug 17)

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_NGA_ GEOEYE_20160816_20160817&field =BATCH_NAME

14 WV2 (Aug 18)

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_NGA_ WORLDVIEW2_20160818&field=BATC H_NAME

77 WV3 (Aug 18)

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_NGA_ WORLDVIEW3_20160818&field=BATC H_NAME

46 WV True color images (Aug 16 & 17) have been posted to HDDS.

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/d ata/list/disaster_restricted/2 01608_Flood_US/data/SATELLITE/ NON_INGESTED/WORLDVIEW_TRUE_CO LOR_NASA

41 ISS_NASA (Aug 16)

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_NASA_ ISS_20160816&field=BATCH_NAME

1,801 – NOAA Oblique scenes (Aug15) published at:

http://hddsexplorer.usgs.gov/c riteria?event=201608_Flood_US& ordered=201608_Flood_US_NOAA_ AERIAL_LA_Oblique_20160815-3& field=BATCH_NAME

UTexas Austin CSR https://utexas.box.com/s/ xyypzsnjwx6wvrljwr6g5w1dqr01bx df

copernicus http://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/list-of-components/EMSR176

NOAA http://geodesy.noaa.gov/storm_ archive/storms/aug2016_ lafloods/download/metadata. html

USGS http://cmt.usgs.gov/

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