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Flooding in Sudan

Type of Event:	Flood
Location of Event:	Sudan
Date of Charter Activation:	25/08/2006
Charter Requestor:	UNOOSA
Project Management:	UNOSAT

Description of Event

Torrential rain which started in the Sudan at the beginning of August 2006 increased to a large-scale emergency by 25 August. Floods and heavy rain killed 27 people and damaged about 10,000 homes, according to government and other sources.

Images and/or Image Products Delivered under the Charter

Sudan Flood 08/2006
Possible flooded area in east Sudan, due to torrential rainfall since the beginning of August.
Background Image: Landsat ETM+; Flooded areas extracted from Radarsat-1 image.
Source: RADARSAT-1, Landsat
Acquired: 28/08/2006, 13/11/1999
25 m resolution
Copyright: CSA 2006, USGS 1999
Image processing, map created 07/09/2006 by Politecnico di Torino in collaboration with WFP.
Higher resolution version

High-resolution imagery and additional data are available at:

http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/prod_free.asp?id=40