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Satellite Detected Water Extent in the Phonhong & Viengkham Districts, Vientiane Province, Lao PDR

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Satellite Detected Water Extent in the Phonhong & Viengkham Districts, Vientiane Province, Lao PDR
Description
This map illustrates the satellite-detected water extent in the Phonhong & Viengkham Districts, Vientiane Province, in the northwestern part of Lao People's Democratic Republic after the tropical storm SONCA-17. The UNITAR-UNOSAT analysis used a Sentinel-1 satellite image acquired on the 1 August 2017 and detected several areas with potentially standing waters. In the district of Phonhong 2,045 ha are likely flooded and in the district of Viengkham 1,077 ha. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR-UNOSAT.
Creator
UNOSAT
Publisher
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Temporal Coverage
2017-08-11
Date Issued
2017-08-17
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.

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    UNOSAT (2017). Satellite Detected Water Extent in the Phonhong & Viengkham Districts, Vientiane Province, Lao PDR. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/841b3f68-8eef-436d-adaf-63c36cea0ab3 (dataset)
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