Evaluating the impact of flood inundation with the cloud computing platform over vegetation cover of Ganga Basin during COVID-19

Around the month of July 2020, people suffering from COVID-19 pandemic got added burden disastrous floods. The current study tries to understand impact flood inundation on vegetation cover across Ganga Basin with help a cloud-based computing platform like Google Earth Engine (GEE) in near real-time scenario. This offers semi-automatic scheme customized algorithms process large scale datasets further analyze and derive required information space-based satellite images Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images. direct floods is assessed satellite-derived normalized difference index (NDVI) enhanced (EVI). results post-flood NDVI EVI readings showed considerable reduction due protracted water submergence. show extent maps for selected regions lower having inundations parts Bihar West Bengal. affects settlements, agricultural land, damage population. outcomes work may be utilized assess precise flood-inundated areas at faster rate offer response even pandemic.