JAKARTA - The National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) identified 118 watersheds (DAS) affected by floods in Aceh and North Sumatra (North Sumatra) areas.
In a working meeting with Commission X of the DPR, the Head of BRIN, Arif Satria, said the data was obtained based on the capture of the Sentinel-1A satellite image.
"Well, for watersheds affected by the disaster, there are 118 watersheds, affected watersheds for Aceh and North Sumatra that can be identified by our satellite imagery," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Monday, December 8.
Arif also explained the results of satellite imagery captured by BRIN also showed that there were 34 flood distribution points in Aceh, 27 points in West Sumatra (West Sumatra), and 34 points in North Sumatra.
In addition, he continued, his party has also identified affected objects, including cut off road points.
Arif emphasized that the data is confidential for relevant stakeholders, such as the National Disaster Management Agency (BNPB).
"We can see all the data from the estimation of the reconstruction of buildings, roads, and bridges. So, from the satellite image and tools that we already have, these are the numbers that we then give to BNPB as the basis for taking the next step," he said.
Arif said that his party had produced up to 119 high-resolution satellite images to facilitate policy making.
He revealed that this was also part of the work program of the Task Force Disaster Embezzlement program formed by BRIN to deal with disasters in Sumatra.
"Alhamdulillah, we have formed the Task Force, and the Task Force has been working on November 27 or at the time of the disaster. We have the Military Center Task Force, this team is quite a lot working to monitor developments with satellites, the place is in remote sensing laboratories in Cibinong and Serpong," said Arif Satria.
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