SERVIR-VIZ - GEOSS Decision Support hurricanes, Volcanoes, and Floods
Dean the places which were affected by Dean
Overall the places which have experienced the direct effects of Hurricane Dean were documented for the nations given below.
Dominica, Dominican Republic, Martinique, Jamaica, Haiti, Honduras, Belize, Mexico, Guatemala.
Impacts of Dean
the Hurricane Dean was expected to have the following impacts. These impacts are related to economic, social and environmental consequences.
Flooding, Landslides, Wind damage, and Damage to the coral reefs.
Information products
Apart from the information mentioned above, you can also visualize Google Earth, and Flagship SERVIR-VIZ application of SERVIR's.
Further information
Links to the websites from where you can get further information also are provided by SERVIR-VIZ.
Volcanoes
With the GEOSS Decision Support you can view and know more about the volcanoes in Mesoamerica.
The Pacific Plate that is also called as the “Ring of Fire” is the place where most Central American volcanoes are located. There are no active volcanoes on the Atlantic side of Central America.
It is important to monitor the activity of volcanoes, for reducing the risks associated with volcanic activity. The monitoring of volcanoes includes the things like detecting the changes in magma movement, under the volcano and anticipating whether a volcanic eruption ahead of time. It also involves detecting volcanic events like explosive eruptions and lahars, which are the volcanic debris or mudflows.
The SERVIR products associated with it include Digital Elevation Models of Mesoamerican volcanoes. These models have been developed by SERVIR research affiliate SSAI. A “Volcano Cam”, plug in from SERVIR-VIZ is allows you to view live-webcams for select Mesoamerican volcanoes. For this click on the SERVIR data portal link, and enter the keywords, Volcanoes for accessing the DEMs and other associated products.
Floods in the Mesoamerican region
Floods in different parts of Central America are a yearly phenomenon. The reasons for these yearly floods are high density of water bodies and high amount of rainfall. Moreover, in some cases poor infrastructure also is one of the reasons. SERVIR and its associates provides different products which help in monitoring the present floods and analysing the previously occurred ones.
The Dartmouth Flood Observatory (DFO) uses the AMSR-E , microwave measurements for measuring the discharge and watershed runoff. This it does every two days, and for 25 river reach sites in Central America. This data is published by SERVIR on a web-map service, which everybody can view. The DAA on this service updates immediately after it receives new data. Generally the updates are done once every two days.
Symbols for different types of maps are given in SERVIR-VIZ. When you click on these symbols, you get the further detailed maps or information. You can also get a framework layer, of this map, in SERVIR-VIZ.
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