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Satellite detected waters in Peten Department of Guatemala & Chiapas State of Mexico as of 22 November 2020

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Satellite detected waters in Peten Department of Guatemala & Chiapas State of Mexico as of 22 November 2020
Description
**UNOSAT code: TC20201119GTM** This map illustrates satellite-detected surface waters in Peten, Alta Verapaz and Quiche departments of Guatemala & Chiapas state of Mexico as observed from a Sentinel-1 image acquired on 22 November 2020 at 05:53 Local time. Within the analyzed area of about 10,000 km2, a total of about 380 km2 of lands appear to be flooded. Based on Worldpop population data and the detected surface waters, about 24,000 people are potentially exposed or living close to flooded areas. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR-UNOSAT. Important Note: Flood analysis from radar images may underestimate the presence of standing waters in built-up areas and densely vegetated areas due to backscattering properties of the radar signal.
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UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT)
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The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2020-11-23
Date Issued
2020-11-25
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Public
Date Added
August 23, 2025
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.

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    UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) (2020). Satellite detected waters in Peten Department of Guatemala & Chiapas State of Mexico as of 22 November 2020. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/0a15a4af-a3bf-421c-bd3b-7294626af2a0 (dataset)
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