{"id":1786144,"date":"2018-08-17T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1786144"},"modified":"2018-08-17T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:28:43","slug":"the-changing-padma-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/08\/the-changing-padma-river\/","title":{"rendered":"The Changing Padma River"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Padma<\/a>
NASA Earth Observatory<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Landsat observations have charted the erosion of the banks of the ever-changing Padma River<\/a>, a major distributary of the Ganges in Bangladesh. This is vividly shown in this animation produced by NASA Earth Observatory<\/a>, which “shows 14 false-color images of the Padma river between 1988 and 2018 taken by the Landsat 5 and 8 satellites. All of the images include a combination of shortwave infrared, near infrared, and visible light to highlight differences between land and water.” More on the erosion of the Padma River here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Landsat observations have charted the erosion of the banks of the ever-changing Padma River, a major distributary of the Ganges in Bangladesh. This is vividly shown in this animation produced by NASA Earth Observatory, which… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1256],"tags":[1185,11,73,12,1257,16,621,177],"class_list":["post-1786144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-hydrology","tag-bangladesh","tag-earth-observatory","tag-landsat","tag-nasa","tag-padma-river","tag-remote-sensing","tag-rivers","tag-satellite-imagery","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1817567,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/07\/the-aftermath-of-the-kakhovka-dams-destruction\/","url_meta":{"origin":1786144,"position":0},"title":"The Aftermath of the Kakhovka Dam’s Destruction","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"27 July 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"NASA Earth Observatory has before-and-after satellite imagery showing the impact of the destruction of Ukraine\u2019s Kakhovka Dam last month. 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