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Flooding in Ethiopia

Increasingly serious flooding conditions struck Ogaden region, Ethiopia, with reports of 79 dead and level of rivers rising.

Tipo de evento:	Flooding
Local do evento:	Ethiopia
Data da Ativação da Carta:	03/11/2006
Requisitante da Carta:	UN OOSA on behalf of WFP
Gerenciamento de projeto:	UNOSAT

Products

Shabelle Floods, pre-crisis Landsat ETM image acquired in 1999 over the two most flood-affected districts: Kelafo and Mustahil in Woreda District

Direitos autorais: USGS 1999
Image processing, map created 10/11/2006 by UNOSAT.

Information about the Product

Adquirida: Pre-crisis: 21/11/1999

Fonte: Landsat ETM

Local elevations for the two most-affected Woreda districts: Kelafo and Mustahil. The approximate flood plain area for the Shabelle River was identified from a Landsat ETM image of in 1999.

Direitos autorais: USGS 1999
Image processing, map created by UNOSAT.

Information about the Product

Adquirida: 08/11/2006

Fonte: Landsat 7, GIST, Global Insight, UNOSAT

Estimated population density from 2002 over the two most flood-affected districts, Kelafo and Mustahil in Woreda, Ethiopia.

Direitos autorais: USGS 1999
Image processing, map created by UNOSAT.

Information about the Product

Adquirida: 07/11/2006

Fonte: Landscan 2002

Areas likely covered with standing flood waters and exposed soils saturated with water over the flood-affected Woreda district of Kelafo. Analysis made using post-crisis RADARSAT-1 data acquired 06/11/2006, not yet validated in the field.

Direitos autorais: CSA 2006
USGS 2006
GIS Data: GIST, GLCF, UNOSAT Image processing, map created 14/11/2006 by UNOSAT.

Information about the Product

Adquirida: RADARSAT-1: 06/11/2006
Landsat ETM: 21/11/1999

Fonte: RADARSAT-1, Landsat ETM