Myanmar’s Delta: Water World

Water is blue or nearly black, vegetation is bright green, bare ground is tan, and clouds are white or light blue.

On April 15, rivers and lakes are sharply defined against a backdrop of vegetation and fallow agricultural land…. The wetlands near the shore are a deep blue green.

The entire coastal plain is flooded in the May 5 image.

clipped from dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com The team managing the data flowing from instruments on NASA’s Terra satellite has posted a pair of images of the Irrawaddy River delta in Myanmar before and after Cyclone Nargis struck, showing vividly the amount of land that was submerged. Our package of cyclone coverage is being updated continually by Seth Mydans, Tom Fuller, and contributors from South Asia. These images provide the view from on high. Images of the Irrawaddy River delta before and after the cyclone. (Credit: NASA/MODIS Rapid Response Team)