UN-SPIDER SpaceAid: space-based information for floods in Namibia

Processed on Apr 4th 2011

Status Update: 10 May 2011

Contacts

UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER:
Focal Point: Mr. Joerg Szarzynski
Phone: +49 228 815 0677
Fax: +49 228 815 0399
E-Mail: joerg.szarzynski@unoosa.org

Contact Points in Namibia:

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
Mr. Ojijo Odhiambo
UNDP Resident Representative
Officer-In-Charge

Phone : +264.61.204.6238
Fax : +264.61.204.6203
Cellular phone : +264.81.4214165
E-mail : ojijo.odhiambo@undp.org

Coordinates of affected areas (AOI)

Geographical Coordinates for Charter activation request:

Upper left
Lat 17° 20’ ” S
Long 15° 15‘ ” E
Lower right
Lat 18° 15’ ” S
Long 16° 10’ ” E

International Charter Space and Major Disasters

International Charter:

Activation Request accepted: 01/04/2011
Requested by: UNOOSA on behalf of UNDP
Link: http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/activation_details?p_r_p_1415474252_assetId=ACT-360

Project Manager: Pacific Disaster Center

NASA experimental flood page

http://matsu.opencloudconsortium.org

Satellite data has not been calibrated and validated and thus can not be deemed to be 100% accurate. Actions and decisions should not be based on this data. This data is presented as general overview information at this time.

Space-based resources

No	Sensor	Time (UTC)	Area	Type	Status	Remarks
1	EO-1	several	Nothern Namibia	pre-disaster	delivered	SensorWeb
2	MODIS	daily	Northern Namibia		delivered	SensorWeb Flood Maps
3	MODIS	12/04/2011	Northern Namibia	post-disaster	delivered	JPEG, GeoTIFF, KML
4	ALI	16/04/2011	Northern Namibia	post-disaster	delivered	JPEG, GeoTIFF
5	MODIS	09/05/2011	Northern Namibia / Angola	post-disaster	delivered	PDF
6	TRMM	05/05/2011	Southern Namibia / South Africa	post-disaster	delivered	Graphic