Devastating Impact of Record Rainfall in Asia Shown by Satellite Imagery

Satellite imagery has revealed how deadly flooding in the last two weeks wreaked havoc across Southeast Asia as record rainfall upended life for millions throughout Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and Thailand. Before and after imagery from San Francisco-based company Planet Labs PBC and Colorado-based U.S. defense contractor Vantar show how rising waters in Sri Lanka transformed parts of the capital. Along the Kelani River in Colombo, fields, open spaces, and roads around the waterway turned into muddy ponds after Cyclone Ditwah made landfall. More than 1.1 million people were affected across the country, according to its disaster management office.