Overall Green alert Flood for Papua New Guinea
in Papua New Guinea

Flood impact summary

Flood Papua New Guinea is expected to have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID: 1100713
Deaths: 15
Displaced: -
Region:
Countries:
From - To 28 Dec - 02 Jan
Known identifiers for this event:

GDACS Score

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Impact Assessement as of 01-01-1900

SENDAI Indicator A N Country Location Info
death 15 Papua New Guinea Goilala

Satellite Observation

Satellite-based Flood extent provided by GLOFAS
Overall of the satellite-based flooded area from / to : 2020-12-21 / 2021-01-09  

Monday 21/12Tuesday 22/12Wednesday 23/12Thursday 24/12Friday 25/12Saturday 26/12Sunday 27/12Monday 28/12Tuesday 29/12Wednesday 30/12Thursday 31/12Friday 01/01Saturday 02/01Sunday 03/01Monday 04/01Tuesday 05/01Wednesday 06/01Thursday 07/01Friday 08/01Saturday 09/01

Timeline of revisions

For accessing reports of previous advisories, please click on the advisory number in the table below.

IDAlert ColorPopulation affectedStart DateEnd DateSource
1 15 deaths GLOFAS

Flood polygons

This polygon (translucent blue with a blue border) is drawn by the analysts recording the flood event. It is meant to include all the areas reported as affected, by official source or the media. It does not represent the area actually under water.

Microwave flood detection

Flooded area, as detected in microwaves by the Global Flood Detection System of the JRC, based on NASA TRMM/GPM observations. This system has a rather low resolution (of 5-10km) but is not affected by clouds.
For more details, see http://www.unisdr.org/files/9622_LBNA23303ENC002.pdf.
The areas with a flood signal along the coast are an artefact of the system and should not be considered.

Optical Flood detection

Flooded area as detected in optical wavelengths by NASA/MODIS, known as "MODIS Flood Product". Data are made available by NASA GSFC Flood Mapping Project, http://oas.gsfc.nasa.gov/floodmap/index.html. Resolution of 250m, heavily affected by cloud cover.