Potential Coastal Inundation

Imagery captured by Digital Globe on 2 October 2018 of Palu, Indonesia. The data is available as a service https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=d0ff196041e04e0d8d3a09e1e435625d where the tiffs can also be downloaded.

This map illustrates satellite-detected building damage assessment as of 02 October 2018, over Taipa area northeastern Palu city in Central Sulawesi following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami of the 28th of September 2018. The analysis was conducted using a post-event Worldview-2 satellite image acquired 2 October 2018. UNITAR-UNOSAT identified in the analysed area 399 potentially damaged structures. Taking into account the pre-building footprints provided by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, this represents 10 % of the total number of structures within this analysed zone of Taipa.This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR-UNOSAT.

This map illustrates satellite-detected building damage assessment as of 02 October 2018, over Tawaeli area northeastern Palu city in Central Sulawesi following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami of the 28 September 2018. The analysis was conducted using a post event Worldview 2 satellite image acquired 2 October 2018. UNITAR UNOSAT identified in the analysed area 531 potentially damaged structures.Taking into account the pre-building footprints provided by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, this represents 15% of the total number of structures damaged within this analysed zone of Tawaeli. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR UNOSAT.

This map illustrates satellite-detected building damage assessment as of 02 October 2018, over Pantoloan area northeastern Palu city in Central Sulawesi following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami of the 28th of September 2018. The analysis was conducted using a post-event Worldview-2 satellite image acquired 2 October 2018. UNITAR-UNOSAT identified in the analysed area 424 potentially damaged structures.Taking into account the pre-building footprints provided by Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, this represents about 10% of the total number of structures damaged within this analysed zone of Pantoloan. This is a preliminary analysis and has not yet been validated in the field. Please send ground feedback to UNITAR – UNOSAT.

uav imagery by Digital Mapper Indonesia, acquired 2025-12-06 to 2025-12-06, 4.3 cm per pixel, published on OpenAerialMap.

geoBoundaries ADM0 boundaries for Palau: 1 units, representing 2017. Source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher. Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0