Title
Status of River Breakages Along Juba and Shabelle Rivers - Issued August 2021
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Abstract

SWALIM has been mapped twice a year the river breakages along the two rivers since 2015. This had been made possible with the use of World View Very High-Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery provided by Digital Globe. Due to lower temporal resolution of images present in Digital Globe archive, Pleiades Images provided by Airbus supplemented the image gaps in some areas. Where possible the preliminary findings from the images were verified with field observations to confirm the status of river breakages. In this case, the field river breakages surveys were carried out in Belet Weyne, Jowhar, Balcad and Afgooye districts all along the Shabelle River. In other cases, breakages which had been verified on VHR in March 2021 and there was either cloudy images or no images at all in the current assessment have been marked as ‘Not verified’.

Along the Juba River, 32 open points, 6 overflows and another 123 potential breakages and 75 potential overflows were identified. Further, 103 open points, 106 overflows and 103 potential breakages and 322 potential overflows were identified along the Shabelle River.

It has been observed that the number of points either open or overflows has been increasing over the years probably due to the continuous weakening of the river banks following three years of successive heavy floods in 2018, 2019 and 2020. These points need immediate closure or reinforcement before the 2021 Deyr rainy season which is expected to start in Mid-October 2021.

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Vector Data
Keywords
river , somalia
Category
Water related datasets
Water related datasets. Examples: rivers, water resources, floods
Regions
Somalia
Owner
Group
Water Resources
More info
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Maintenance Frequency
Data Is Updated Twice Each Year
Language
English
Supplemental Information

Recurrent flooding along the Juba and Shabelle Rivers in Southern Somalia has been one of the key challenges for the riverine communities. The last 10 years ...

Spatial Representation Type
vector data is used to represent geographic data

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Attribute Name Label Description
fid
Region
District
Longitude
Latitude
Settlement
LeftRight
Comment
STATUS
Width_m
RIVER
Category
Image_Date
Validation

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