Satellite detected water extent in Tawkar Locality, Red Sea State, Sudan as of 26 August 2024
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Title
Satellite detected water extent in Tawkar Locality, Red Sea State, Sudan as of 26 August 2024
Description
**UNOSAT code: FL20240826SDN, GDACS ID: 1102854** This map illustrates satellite-detected water extent in Tawkar Locality, Red Sea State, Sudan as observed from a Sentinel-2 satellite image acquired on 26 August 2024 at 10:06 local time (09:56 UTC). Within analysed area of about 4,600 km², a total of about 783 km² of land appears to be affected by floodwaters. Based on Worldpop population data and the flood extent, approximately 33,400 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 the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT)
Creator
UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT)
Publisher
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2024-08-28
Date Issued
2024-08-29
License
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Access Rights
Public
Date Added
August 30, 2024
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.
UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) (2024). Satellite detected water extent in Tawkar Locality, Red Sea State, Sudan as of 26 August 2024. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/60d6c334-435b-4901-9252-122d65c4a3d0 (dataset)