UNSDI-T deployed in Uganda Floods Response
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UNJLC deployed a reports officer and GIS officer in support of the Logistics Cluster during the response to severe flooding in Northern Uganda in October 2007. The GIS officer employed the UNJLC-developed UN Spatial Data Infrastructure for Transportation (UNSDI-T) to structure the collection and display of information about road conditions, road damage, and bridge damage. The UNSDI-T proved to be a quick and effective method of editing, storing and displaying this information. Corrections were made to the road network using GPS data and assessments collected by humanitarians working in the area and at the end of the operation, this improved data was handed back over to the UN GIS Coordiation group in Kampala to be used in future work.
The UNSDI-T was developed by UNJLC as part of the borader UNSDI initiative spearheaded by the UN Geographic Information Working Group (http://www.ungiwg.org). More about informaiton about the UNSDI-T
Type of document : Update
Country : UG UGA 800 Uganda, Republic of
Publication date 2007-Nov-28
