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Status of River Breakages along Juba and Shabelle Rivers - Issued March 2023
Resource ID
191402de-e365-11ed-8f34-eab1b014fce8
Title
Status of River Breakages along Juba and Shabelle Rivers - Issued March 2023
Date
April 25, 2023, 3:31 p.m., Publication
Abstract
SWALIM has updated the status of the river breakages along the Juba and Shabelle Rivers using available Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery acquired from World View 2/World View 3 and PLEIADES and a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Six types of breakages have been identified, namely; Canal Flooding Point, open, overflow, potential overflows, potential breakages and closed with sandbags. The open breakages are those that are currently open as observed on the latest VHR image available. All the observations reported refers to the latest suitable VHR satellite image available, which is indicated in the online database. 65 Open breakage points have been identified, 39 on the Shabelle River and 26 on the Juba River which require immediate action. 15 Overflows were also identified during this season. Users are advised that the methodology is biased towards Remote Sensing (RS) interpretation with only limited “ground truthing” due to access constraints. Open breakages might have been omitted in some cases where satellite images may not have been very clear (e.g. heavy cloud cover) or were not available.
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Owner
admin
Point of Contact
Purpose
This dataset is to help inform actors within the wash sector in Somalia to better plan there intervention to help mitigate the impact occasioned by flooding to vulnerable communities along River Juba and Shabelle
Maintenance Frequency
biannually
Type
not filled
Restrictions
None
License
Public Domain
Language
eng
Temporal Extent
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Supplemental Information
No information provided
Data Quality
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Extent
  • x0: 42.068088531494100
  • x1: 45.678672790527300
  • y0: -0.070970006287098
  • y1: 4.892940044403080
Spatial Reference System Identifier
EPSG:4326
Keywords
no keywords
Category
Water related datasets
Regions
Somalia