Bangladesh - November 24th, 2012
Sediments line the coast of Bangladesh on the Bay of Bengal. They appear most dense in the estuary of the Meghna River. To the west of the estuary, many channels can be seen as rows of parallel tan lines stretching from southern Bangladesh to the bay. Part of this area of river channels is a mangrove forest known as the Sundarbans.
Bangladesh - April 14th, 2012
Sediments line the coast of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal, pouring out from the innumerous rivers and channels along the country’s coastline. Visible on the left side of the image is the Sundarban forest, lying in the vast delta on the Bay of Bengal formed by the super confluence of the Padma, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers across southern Bangladesh. The Sundarbans is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests.
Bangladesh - January 26th, 2012
Smoke and haze hang over northeastern India and Bangladesh, stretching from the valley of the Brahmaputra River, south of the Himalayas, down to the Bay of Bengal. Haze is common in this region, and develops as a result of pollution from cars, industry and smoke from agricultural fires.
Bangladesh is primarily a broad deltaic plain formed by the confluence of the Ganges, Jamuna and Meghna Rivers and their tributaries. Roughly 80 percent of the country’s 144,000 square kilometer area is fertile alluvial lowland called the Bangladesh Plain. Here, sediments can be seen through the haze in the Bay of Bengal by the edge of the plain.
India - November 26th, 2011
Rivers in West Bengal, India and Bangladesh can be observed on the right side of this image, empyting sediments into the Bay of Bengal. Visible near the image center is the wide Hooghly River, a distributary of the Ganges River of approximately 260 kilometres (160 mi) in length.
To the east of the Hooghly River is the Sundarbans, the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The forest lies in the vast delta on the Bay of Bengal formed by the super confluence of the Padma, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers across southern Bangladesh. The seasonally-flooded Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests lie inland from the mangrove forests on the coastal fringe.
Bangladesh - November 9th, 2011
This APM image shows the vast delta on the Bay of Bengal formed by the super confluence of the Padma, Brahmaputra and Meghna rivers across Saiyan, in southern Bangladesh.
The area is home to the Sundarbans, the largest single block of tidal halophytic mangrove forest in the world. The seasonally-flooded Sundarbans freshwater swamp forests lie inland from the mangrove forests on the coastal fringe.
The Sundarbans is intersected by a complex network of tidal waterways, mudflats and small islands of salt-tolerant mangrove forests. The interconnected network of waterways makes almost every corner of the forest accessible by boat.
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