Synopsis
Satellite cameras are used to track flooding and predict future weather.
- Programme: Bang Goes the Theory
- Series: 8
- Episode: Flooding
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2014
- Geography | Natural hazards | Rivers and flooding | Flooding
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