Maastricht, The Netherlands February 1995
The heavy rainfall at the end of January 1995, together with
the snow melt in the Alps, caused extensive flooding along the Maas (or Meuse) river. On
25 January the water level of the Maas river started rising dangerously in the south of
the Netherlands, near the town of Maastricht. On 30 January the government of The
Netherlands decided to evacuate approximately 75,000 inhabitants living along the Maas and
the Waal.  
SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) image
representing the region of Maastricht, Netherlands
Provided by
This SAR image represents the region of Maastricht,
Netherlands. The Maas river flows from the bottom to the upper part of the image forming
the boundary between Belgium (left) and the Netherlands (right). The colours in the
image are achieved by merging the two data sets, assigning a blue colour to the September
acquisition and yellow colour to the second one. This allows to visualise clearly all the
changes between the two acquisition dates. The most significant changes are marked in blue
showing the flooding areas. They are located mainly along the Maas river, representing a
total surface within the image of 3520 hectares. Near the middle of the picture,
just south the large flooded areas, lies the city of Maastricht, appearing here in light
grey and bright white points. A channel (in black/dark blue), starting south Maastricht
and running west, flowing near the city of Genk (Belgium) is also clearly visible in the
image.
- Satellite: ERS-1
- Sensor: SAR
- Acq. date(s)
Red: 30 Jan 95
Green 30 Jan 95
Blue 21 Sep 94
- Size: 25 x 30 km
Acquired by: Fucino (I)
Keywords: ESA European
Space Agency - Agence spatiale europeenne,
observation de la terre, earth observation,
satellite remote sensing,
teledetection, geophysique, altimetrie, radar,
chimique atmospherique, geophysics, altimetry, radar,
atmospheric chemistry
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