Satellite Bangladesh

Five chapters of a country seen from orbit. Forty years of satellite data reveal what ground surveys cannot: a nation transforming, flooding, glowing, greening, eroding, and dividing, all visible from 700 kilometers above.

A BDPolicy Lab narrative series. All data from real satellite sources. No fabricated statistics.

1

Bangladesh is Drowning

40 Years of Satellite Evidence on Floods, Rivers, and Vanishing Wetlands

climate flooding rivers haors satellite GIS
2

Bangladesh is Glowing

Satellite Tracking of Nightlights, Urban Sprawl, and Air That Kills

nightlights urbanization air-quality UHI satellite GIS
3

Bangladesh is Greening (and Browning)

Forest Loss, Vegetation Health, and the Battle for Land

vegetation forest NDVI land-cover satellite GIS
4

Bangladesh is Eroding

Rising Seas, Shifting Rains, and a Coast Under Siege

coastal climate sea-level rainfall satellite GIS
5

Bangladesh is Dividing

Satellite Evidence of Spatial Inequality, Poverty Persistence, and Urban-Rural Fracture

poverty inequality MPI nutrition infrastructure satellite GIS

Data Sources

Landsat 5/7/8/9 (USGS/NASA), Sentinel-2 (ESA Copernicus), Sentinel-5P TROPOMI (ESA), VIIRS DNB (NASA), DMSP-OLS (NOAA), MODIS (NASA), CHIRPS (UCSB/USGS), Hansen Global Forest Change (UMD/Google), GHSL (EC JRC), Dynamic World (Google/WRI), geoBoundaries (W&M), HIES (BBS), DHS (ICF), IPUMS (UMN). All satellite processing via Google Earth Engine.