Rudraprayag and Tehri the two districts in Uttarakhand are facing the highest risk of landslides, according to satellite data collected over the past two decades. Data collected by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has highlighted that Rudraprayag and Tehri Garhwal are at the highest risk of facing landslides, having seen the highest number of landslide incidents in the past 20 years.
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The findings, compiled by the Hyderabad-based ISRO facility the National Remote Sensing Centre, were published in the Landslide Atlas of India. The agency used data from ISRO satellites to create a database of over 80,000 landslides in the country between 1998 and 2022. The team then used this data to rank 147 landslide-affected districts across 17 states and two Union territories.
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