5/3/2023 0 Comments Iota hurricane![]() The Landslide Hazard Assessment for Situational Awareness ( LHASA) model has being used to provide situational awareness of the landslides.DisasterAWARE is integrated into SOUTHCOM’s toolkit to respond to Hurricane Iota. The Pacific Disaster Center integrates NASA flood and landslide models and maps into the DisasterAWARE application, a global early warning and decision support system that translates data into actionable information to improve situational awareness, disaster response and recovery of at-risk communities.NASA Disasters Mapping Portal is an Esri ArcGIS-based web interface for viewing and analyzing the latest near-real-time products and disaster response datasets.The Program has also shared agricultural impact information from NASA Harvest with stakeholders in Central America. The Program is also working with NASA SERVIR, who have provided assistance with situational awareness through their expertise in the region, and shared tools for identifying expected flood locations and preliminary flood mapping extents using Sentinel 1 imagery. Southern Command ( SOUTHCOM) to provide situational awareness for potential emergency humanitarian assistance and aid disaster relief planning for multiple agencies. The Program’s work with these agencies is facilitated in part by its leadership role in AmeriGEO, an organization that promotes collaboration and coordination for risk reduction in the Americas. Together they are looking to address topics such as the extent of regional flooding, the time of the next useful satellite overpasses, situational awareness for potential landslides, and more. The Disasters Program is working to provide information to Guatemala’s National Coordinator for Disaster Reduction (CONRED) to support response efforts in that country and is collaborating with the Coordination Center for Disaster Prevention in Central America ( CEPREDENAC) to aid stakeholders in the local governments of Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Costa Rica, and Panama. ![]() Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2020), processed by ESA. Credits: NASA / JPL Caltech / National Central University (NCU) of Taiwan. The map was derived from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data acquired on October 26 and Novemby European Space Agency (ESA) Copernicus Sentinel satellites, and was processed by the NASA JPL Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team and the National Central University (NCU) of Taiwan. This flood proxy map (FPM) shows areas around the border between Honduras and Guatemala that are likely flooded (in blue). These products are shared directly with local disaster management agencies, and many are shared on the NASA Disasters Mapping Portal. The program has been working to determine what resources and capabilities may be available to aid response and recovery and is responding to requests from multiple organizations for assistance in determining the extent of flooding, including the extent at the peak of the flooding, the risk of landslides, mapped locations of landslides, and damage mapping. The NASA Earth Applied Sciences Disasters Program has activated in support of the cascading events of Eta and Iota. Central American officials are particularly concerned about flooding, mudslides, and potential impacts to the dam and systems across portions of Central America that may be exacerbated by Eta’s recent charge through the region. The National Hurricane Center predicts river and flash flooding, along with dangerous storm surge that is likely to bring water levels up by as much as five to 10 feet. Officials are predicting isolated totals of up to 30 inches of rain to arrive with the storm. Iota’s strength is practically unheard of this late in the hurricane season. Iota has already earned an ominous place in history as the thirtieth named storm, thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, and first Category 5 hurricane to form in the already record-breaking 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. The storm was upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane Monday morning, Nov. The photo-like, true color corrected reflectance image was captured by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS), aboard the joint NASA/NOAA NOAA-20 satellite. Image of Hurricane Iota approaching Nicaragua and Honduras, acquired on Nov.
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