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Monsoon rains in Indonesia have caused flooding  and landslides in the capital Jakarta and surrounding regions, resulting in the deaths of 43 people as of Friday January 3rd, 2020.

he Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, in collaboration with the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS), created this Flood Proxy Map (FPM). Der
The Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California, in collaboration with the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS), created this Flood Proxy Map (FPM). Derived from synthetic aperture radar data acquired by the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) before (21 Dec 2019) and during (2 Jan 2020) the event. Analysed by the ARIA-SG team at the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS) in collaboration with NASA-JPL and Caltech.

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