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Floods in Indonesia

Type of Event:	Floods
Location of Event:	Indonesia
Date of Charter Activation:	27/12/2006
Charter Requestor:	UN-OCHA
Project Management:	UNOSAT

Description of Event

Violent rain caused flooding and landslides on 25 December in the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra in Indonesia, forcing some 70,000 people to flee their villages. Local authorities report that about 80 have died. Roads between Bireuen and Bener Meriah and Kuala Simpang, Aceh Tamiang, were cut off. About 160 villages were affected.

Images and/or Image Products Delivered under the Charter

Aceh Floods Rainfall 18-27 December 2006
Estimated rainfall from daily global CMORPH
precipitation dataset, calculated using
microwave and infrared data from
geostationary satellites, at a resolution of 27 km.
For more information, see: http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products
/fews/data.shtml.
Source: Geostationary satellites
Acquired: 18-27/12/2006, rainfall estimation
Rainfall data: CMORPH 2006.
Copyright: Data: OCHA, NOAA, WHO, GEBCO.
Estimated population: WHO
Image processing, map created
29/12/2006 by UNOSAT.
Higher resolution version

Aceh Floods Population Density 2004
Source: Landscan 2004
Acquired: 2004
Copyright:Rainfall data: CMORPH 2006.
Data: OCHA, NOAA, WHO, GEBCO
Image processing, map created 29/12/2006 by UNOSAT.
Higher resolution version

High-resolution imagery and additional data are available at:

http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/prod_free.asp?id=21