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Potentially affected population by flooding in eastern Kenya

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Potentially affected population by flooding in eastern Kenya
Description
This map illustrates potentially affected population by flooding in the eastern sub counties of Kenya. The analysis was conducted by analyzing Sentinel-1 imagery acquired on the 4 May 2018. Within the analysis extent, more than 200,000 people are potentially affected by the floods. Magarini sub county in Kilifi County, is the one with more than 40,000 people living inside flood affected areas, followed by Dadaab, Wajir South, Garsen and Malindi sub counties. Note that some sub counties have been partially analyzed depending on the area covered by satellite imagery. 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
2018-05-16
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). Potentially affected population by flooding in eastern Kenya. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/bef8e8ad-5887-4a28-8164-e568e377329d (dataset)
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