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Satellite detected water over Garsen Sub County, Tana River County, Kenya

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Satellite detected water over Garsen Sub County, Tana River County, Kenya
Description
This map illustrates satellite-detected flood water extent over Garsen, Magarini, Malindi and Lamu West Sub Counties, Kenya. The analysis was conducted analyzing Sentinel-1 image acquired on the 4 May 2018. Within the extent of the map more than 25,000 ha of land appear to be inundated and around 20,000 people are living inside this flood water extent. Within the map extent, around 13,000 ha of inundated land are located inside Garsen sub county, potentially affecting 5,000 people. It is likely that flood waters have been systematically underestimated along highly vegetated areas along main river banks and within built-up urban areas because of the special characteristics of the satellite data used. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR UNOSAT.
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UNOSAT
Publisher
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Temporal Coverage
2018-05-10
Date Issued
2018-07-15
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 (2018). Satellite detected water over Garsen Sub County, Tana River County, Kenya. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/8c87f9f4-95ef-476d-a00a-ec7402bbb469 (dataset)
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