Flood Impact Assessment in Koton Karfe Using Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Data

Abstract

Flood has proven to be an incessant menace in Nigeria more threatening to riverine areas. The most recent flood ensued in 2022 as a result of heavy rainfall and the release of water from Lagdo Dam in Cameroon which became very devastating in many areas notably the Koton Karfe area in Kogi State, causing business shutdowns and the loss of lives and properties. In this work, Sentinel-1 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery was used for flood inundation mapping, and the accompanying damages were investigated using Landsat derived Land cover maps of Koton Karfe during the 2022 devastating flood. Overall, the results obtained in this study show that the regions that felt the impact of the flood the most were the southern and western areas, which must have experienced such an impact due to their proximity to the rivers Niger and Benue and also the water coming from the upper stream part of Cameroon. Further findings revealed that during the flood period on October 13, 2022, the total inundated area in Koton Karfe was estimated to be 198.255 sq. km. In terms of damage assessment, the urban areas had reduced from 220.902 sq. km in May 2022 to 87.473 sq. km in November 2022. This shows that over 133 sq. km of the urban settlement have been lost, indicating that lives must have been lost, properties too, and humans must have been displaced. This research will assist in the space of flood emergency response and disaster management.

Keywords

• Flood
• Sentinel-1
• Synthetic Aperture Radar
• Damage assessment
• Koton Karfe

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