Flood Mapping using Remote Sensing

Abstract

For the past few years flood has been a common natural disaster to Bangladesh. Every year it comes with tons of suffering for the riverine people and causes great harm of the economy of Bangladesh. Several researches and techniques has been used so far using remote sensing to identify natural disasters and map the affected area. The purpose of this study is to identify flood and landslide areas and to prepare the map using GIS software. We are going to work with several remote sensing data of different places which are affected by flood almost every year. We are going to discuss about the QGIS application and its SCP (Semi-Automatic Classification Plugin) and how it is effective to map a flooded area effectively with the help open source remotely sensed data.