This photo was taken by Pawan Kumar(Reuters) at Lucknow in 2006. It is indeed a mouse perched on top of a frog in the floodwaters which come with the annual summer monsoon rains.
The Tribune, Chandigarh, India, in its online edition says:”Come monsoon. A new flood monitoring system, aided by microwave remote sensing, will come up along the Brahmaputra basin in the North-East to help plan and execute efficient emergency response measures.

The centrally-funded project, executed by the Pune-based Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), aims at a new ‘object-oriented strategy’ to attempt ‘near-real time’ flood monitoring in the Brahmaputra basin with the help of microwave remote sensing system that can penetrate clouds.

“The system can provide information on the status of land use, soil protective cover and water level. The information can be translated into parameters and coefficients that hydrological models can use for run-off and flood forecasting,” Yogesh Singh, project leader of CDAC, told here.”

Read the full story in The Tribune.

Photo from National Geographic.