Datasets > Rwanda > 2020-2024

Satellite detected water extent over Kigali City, Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern Provinces, Rwanda as of 3 May 2023

Humanitarian Data Exchange · 2023 Full Details

Full Details

Title
Satellite detected water extent over Kigali City, Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern Provinces, Rwanda as of 3 May 2023
Description
**UNOSAT code FL20230504RWA, GDACS Id: 1101977** This map illustrates satellite-detected surface waters in Kigali City, Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern Provinces, Rwanda as observed from a Sentinel-1 image acquired on 3 May 2023 at 18:20 local time. Within the analyzed area of about 6,000 km2, about 20 km2 of land appear to be flooded. Based on Worldpop population data and the detected surface waters in the analyzed area, the potentially exposed population is mainly located in Southern Province Zambezia province with ~7,000 people, and Kigali City with ~5,600 people. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to United Nations Satellite Centre (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 the backscattering properties of the radar signal.
Creator
UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT)
Publisher
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Temporal Coverage
2023-05-05
Date Issued
2023-05-06
License
http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by-sa
Access Rights
Public
Date Added
August 23, 2025
Provenance Statement
The metadata for this resource was last retrieved from Humanitarian Data Exchange on 2026-01-15.

Resource Class

Theme

Place

Location

Links

Cite and Reference

  • Citation
    UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) (2023). Satellite detected water extent over Kigali City, Southern, Northern, Western, and Eastern Provinces, Rwanda as of 3 May 2023. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/801084e4-4b1b-4428-bfcc-ed179f3060d2 (dataset)
  • BTAA Geoportal Link

View more items like this one...

Satellite detected water extent along the Nyabarongo river West and South of Kigali Cit...

2023

Satellite detected water extent and evolution over Southern Region in Malawi & Tete and...

2023

Satellite detected water extents in Central and Western parts, Thailand as of 21 Octobe...

2021

Damage assessment along the Mukungwa river, Western & Northern Provinces, Rwanda as of ...

2023

Satellite detected water extent over Southern Region, Malawi as of 14 March 2023

2023

Satellite detected water extent over Zambezia Provinces, Mozambique as of 24 March 2023

2023

Satellite detected water extents between 17 and 21 March 2023 over Southern Region, Malawi

2023

Satellite detected water extent over Sofala and Zambezia Provinces, Mozambique as of 13...

2023

Satellite detected water extent and evolution over Sofala and Zambezia Provinces, Mozam...

2023

Satellite detected waters in Quang Nam Province of Viet Nam as of 20 October 2020

2020