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Guatemala and Mexico GUATEMALA AND MEXICO Tropical Cyclone Peten, Alta Verapaz and Quiche Departments of Guatemala & Chiapas State of Mexico TC20201119GTM Imagery analysis: 22 November 2020 | Published 23 November 2020 | Version 1.0 90?50'0"W 90?40'0"W 90?30'0"W 90?20'0"W 90?10'0"W 90?0'0"W 89?50'0"W San Valentin Map location Rancho Alegre M E X I C O LAS CR U CE S Nueva Libertad G U A T E M A L A SA N FR A NC ISC O Guatemala City N " Sayaxche 0 ' 0 3 N ? " Benemerito de las Americas El Paraiso 6 0 ' 1 0 3 ? 6 1 OC OS ING O Cooperativa Mario Mendez Satellite detected waters in Sepens EL CH AL Peten, Alta Verapaz and Quiche Departments of Guatemala & Zaragoza El Nacimiento Chiapas State of Mexico as of 22 C H I A P A S Quiringuicharo Lo Veremos El Jordan November 2020 Santo Tomas This map illustrates satellite-detected surface waters in Peten, Alta Verapaz and Quiche BE NE ME RITO DE LA S AM ER ICA S departments of Guatemala & Chiapas state El Pacayal of Mexico as observed from a Sentinel-1 image La Reinita N Chicozapote " San Lazaro 0 acquired on 22 November 2020 at 05:53 Local ' 0 2 N Las Pozas Benito Juarez ? " 6 time. Within the analyzed area of about 10,000 0 ' P E T E N Zamora Pico de Oro 1 0 2 km2, a total of about 380 km2 of lands appear to be ? 6 1 MA RQ U ES DE C O M IL LA S PO PT UN flooded. Based on Worldpop population data and La Victoria Nueva Esperanza the detected surface waters, about 24,000 people are potentially exposed or living close to flooded Emiliano Zapata SAYA XC HE areas. G U A T E M A L A San Isidro Nuevo Chihuahua This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been La Soledad Las Camelias validated in the field. Please send ground feedback Quetzalcoatl 2da. Seccion San Roman Pozo to UNITAR-UNOSAT. Bolivia El Colorado America Libre M E X I C O El Mirador Important Note: Flood analysis from radar images Tierra y Libertad may underestimate the presence of standing waters Nueva Reforma Santa Rosa N " 0 ' in built-up areas and densely vegetated areas Champerico 0 1 N ? " 6 0 ' due to backscattering properties of the radar signal. 1 0 1 ? Barrio San Jose 6 Quetzalcoatl 1ra. Seccion Legend 1 La Torre Tierra Blanca Village Flor de CacaoFlor de Cacao El Pato Arroyo Delicias City / Town Boca De Chajul SA N LU IS Airport El Tuc?n La Nueva Union Nuevo Veracruz Primary road Nuevo Orizaba Secondary road Las Mu?ecas Tzetul La Ceiba Tertiary road El Zapote River Victoria 20 de Enero Linterna 1 Tzulul N Playitas Cruce del Pato " International boundary 0 San Isidro ' 0 ? N 6 " Rubelsanto Airport IX CA N 1 0 ' Canlech Department/State boundary 0 ? Q U I C H E Rubelsanto 6 1 CH IS EC Municipality boundary Playa Grande Ixcan San Jos? el Tesoro San Lucas La Isla Reference water CO BA N RA XR UH A Satellite detected water [22 November 2020] Nacimiento Raxquich?FRAY B AR TOL O ME DE LA S C AS AS El Naranjal Map Scale for A3: 1:380,000 A LTA V E R A P A Z km 90?50'0"W 90?40'0"W 90?30'0"W 90?20'0"W 90?10'0"W 90?0'0"W 89?50'0"W 0 5 10 20 Analysis conduct with SNAP8.0 and ArcGIS v10.7 Satellite Data : Sentinel-1 Guatemala boundary data: Instituto Nacional de Estad?stica (INE) Analysis : UNITAR - UNOSAT The depiction and use of boundaries, geographic names and related data shown here are not warranted to be error-free nor do they imply Imagery Date : 22 November 2020 Mexico boundary data:Instituto Nacional de Estad?stica y Geograf?a (INEGI) Production: UNITAR - UNOSAT Acquisition time : 11:53 UTC Population data: WorldPop [2020] official endorsement or acceptance by the United Nations. UNOSAT is a program of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research Coordinate System: WGS 1984 UTM Zone 15N Resolution : 10 m Reference Water: The European Commission's JRC (UNITAR), providing satellite imagery and related geographic information, research and analysis to UN humanitarian & development Projection: Transverse Mercator Copyright : Contain modified Copernicus Sentinel Data [2020] Road: Open Street Map agencies & their implementing partners. This work by UNITAR-UNOSAT is licensed under a CC BY-NC 3.0. Datum: WGS 1984 Source : ESA Background: ALOS Global DSM Units: Meter UNITAR - UNOSAT - Palais des Nations CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland - T: +41 22 767 4020 (UNOSAT Operations) - Hotline 24/7: +41 75 411 4998 - unosat@unitar.org - www.unitar.org/unosat.
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