UN-SPIDER’s RSO in Algeria provides flood maps of the city of El Bayadh

On the 1st and 2nd of October 2011 heavy downpours hit the area of El Bayadh, 700 km SW of Algiers, leading to deadly flooding affecting the town of El Bayadh. The flooding impacted both population and property, with 13 dead, tens of injured, hundreds of destroyed houses, 5 collapsed bridges, at an estimated cost of 6 billion dinars (600 million Euros). Following the flooding in the city of El Bayadh in the afternoon of 1 October 2011, the Algerian Space Agency (ASAL), tasked coverage of the disaster area with satellite imagery from Algerian Alsat-2A and also triggered in coordination with the Directorate General of Civil Protection the International Charter. Subsequently, ASAL worked on the delineation of the flooded areas and on a preliminary assessment of the impact of flooding on homes and infrastructure.