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Title
Satellite detected water extents, as of 25 August 2019 over White Nile, Sennar and El Gazira states in Sudan
Description
**UNOSAT code: FL20190815SDN** This map illustrates the extent of surface waters detected over El Gazira, White Nile and Sennar states located in the southern part of Sudan as detected by VIIRS-NOAA satellite between 22 & 25 August 2019. In the analysed area, a total of about 7000 km2 are likely flooded and about 250,000 people might be affected by taking into account the WorldPop population estimates. This is a preliminary analysis that has not yet been validated in the field. Please send any field-based comments to UNITAR-UNOSAT.
Creator
UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT)
Publisher
Humanitarian Data Exchange
Temporal Coverage
2019-08-28
Date Issued
2019-09-10
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.
UN Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNOSAT) (2019). Satellite detected water extents, as of 25 August 2019 over White Nile, Sennar and El Gazira states in Sudan. Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/dc430f67-3df6-4f39-98a1-c8ccee9d0e2e (dataset)