Satellite detected waters in Thua Thien Hue Province of Viet Nam as of 25 October 2020
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Title
Satellite detected waters in Thua Thien Hue Province of Viet Nam as of 25 October 2020
Description
**UNOSAT code: TC20201013VNM** This map illustrates satellite-detected surface waters in Thua Thien Hue Province of Viet Nam as observed from a Sentinel-1 image acquired on 25 October 2020. Within the analyzed area of about 4,000 km2, a total of about 230 km2 of lands appear to be flooded. The water extent appears to have a static level since 22 October 2020. Based on Worldpop population data and the detected surface waters, about 50,000 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.
Creator
UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT)
Publisher
The Centre for Humanitarian Data
Temporal Coverage
2020-10-26
Date Issued
2020-11-19
License
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Access Rights
Public
Date Added
August 23, 2025
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2025-08-23.
UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) (2020). Satellite detected waters in Thua Thien Hue Province of Viet Nam as of 25 October 2020. The Centre for Humanitarian Data. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/64b7d048-1947-4746-aa1c-c1c5dcdecfcf (dataset)