Dakar (Senegal) - Flood Extent Maps 2009-2018 (ESA EO4SD-Urban)

For the urban and peri-urban area of Dakar, two main flood scenarios have to be considered: a. Fluvial floods b. Floods triggered by rainfall stagnation after heavy local cloudbursts Scenario a.) and b.) may occur at the same time. The shapefile includes 6 extents of floods between 2009 and 2018 based on HR optical imagery and 7 extents of floods based on visual interpretation of VHR data as available in GoogleEarth.

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Last Updated May 21, 2020, 11:38 (UTC)
Created March 16, 2020, 14:24 (UTC)
Release Year 2019-09-03 00:00:00
Granularity City or metropolitan