Drought and Famine in Horn of Africa

Status Update: 7 September 2011 (14:00 CEST)

UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER

Email: un-spider [at] unoosa.org

Link: http://www.un-spider.org

Page content:

1. Emergency Mapping
2. Space-based Resources
3. Emergency Response, Situation Reports
4. Media
5. Coordinates of affected areas
6. SAFER-IDP Camps in Ethiopia
7. Other Relevant Info
8. Contact

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 1. Emergency Mapping

1.1 Products delivered under SAFER (maps prepared by German Aerospace Center (DLR), Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI))

SAFER was triggered by GMLZ (German Joint Information and Situation Centre) to support the aid work of the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW). The ZKI is producing the maps for this activation, covering different areas and topics (see table below for details and direct links).

Link to GMES/SAFER: http://www.emergencyresponse.eu/gmes/en/event/Humanitarian-Crisis-in-the-horn-of-Africa._110.html

Link to products on DLR/ZKI website: http://www.zki.dlr.de/article/2042

KMZ file "Ethiopia overview": 110-DLR_20110727_ethiopia_thw_overview_sheet1.kmz

Access to the GMES ERS gateway: http://gateway.emergencyresponse.eu

Map of Refugee camps in Ethiopia (updated on 2nd Sept 2011): download data

1.2 Emergency Assessment by UNITAR/UNOSAT

UNOSAT has been mapping suspected informal shelters, refugee camps, and overviews of several areas (see table below for details and direct links).

Link to products on the UNITAR/UNOSAT website: http://www.unitar.org/unosat/horn-africa-data

1.3 Drought- and crop monitoring by NDRCC and UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER

The National Disaster Reduction Center of China (NDRCC), as a partner of UN-SPIDER, has analyzed imagery and prepared crop and drouhgt monitoring maps for Kenya, Djibouti, northern Sudan and Somalia, based on data from Terra/MODIS and HJ-1.

Please access the products by NDRCC and UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER directly through the table below.

Space based rapid mapping products table

Institutional links to further mapping products and databases 

2. Space-based resources 

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Please note that HJ-1 A/B data can be made available upon request.

Access to the GMES ERS gateway: http://gateway.emergencyresponse.eu (Online repository of geo-products. Allows access to geo-preoducts and metadata delivered by GMES Emergency Response Service. If you want to apply for an account to access the geo-products repository, please send your request to coteam [at] gmes-emergencyresponse.eu including your name, the name of your organization and a description of the scope of your organization with respect to the GMES program.)

We will continue to update this section as more resources become available.

 3. Emergency Response, Situation Reports

4. Media 

 5. Coordinates of affected areas

 See above map and attached files for AOI.

 6. SAFER-IDP Camps in Ethiopia

Please follow the link Vector Data for the vector information of the maps of Dolo Ado, Kobe, Melkadida and Bokolmanyo.  The vector files are available as zipped GDB database file. A metadata file (.xml) is included.

 7. Other Relevant Info

 8.  Contact

UNOOSA/UN-SPIDER:

E-Mail: un-spider [at] unoosa.org (un-spider[at]unoosa[dot]org)