Space monitoring of floods in Kazakhstan Original Research Article

Floods are considerable menace for a part of the population of Kazakhstan living on the banks of large rivers, such as Irtish, Ural, Tobol, Ishim, etc. During spring snow thawing the volume of flow in these rivers increases, sometimes more than 1000 times sharply. They frequently go out of the banks and flood large territories. The maximal hoisting of water recorded in the river Ural in 1942, when the water was pushed up by 10–11 m above the normal level. The economical damage from flooding is estimated hundreds of millions of tenge (millions dollars).