Title

Status of River Breakages along Juba and Shabelle Rivers - Issued March 2023

License

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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.

Publication Date

April 25, 2023, 3:31 p.m.

Type

Vector Data

Keywords

River_Juba_Shabelle_Breakage_Apr2023_18042022 , Rivers

Category

Water related datasets

Water related datasets. Examples: rivers, water resources, floods

Regions

Somalia

Owner

admin

More info

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Maintenance Frequency

Data Is Updated Twice Each Year

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 floodi...

Language

English

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