- Title
- Map - Status of River Breakages along Shabelle River - Issued August 2024
- License
- Not Specified
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- Abstract
FAO-SWALIM has updated the status of the river breakages along the Juba and Shabelle Rivers using available Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery and a Digital Elevation Model (DEM). Five types of breakages have been identified; Open, Overflow, Canal Breakage, Canal Intake Flooding 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. A legend/Key for further explanation of the different types of breakages is provided.
Along the Shabelle river, a total of 171 Open breakage points, 2 Canal Breakages, 51 Canal flooding points, 323 Overflow points and 17 points closed with sandbags have been identified. 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.
- Publication Date
- Aug. 27, 2024, 4:11 p.m.
- Category
- Water related datasets
- Water related datasets. Examples: rivers, water resources, floods
- Regions
- Somalia
- Owner
- admin
- Group
- Water Resources
- Maintenance Frequency
- Data Is Updated Twice Each Year
- Language
- English
- Supplemental Information
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