Brazil - GLIDE Disaster Events: Unique Identifiers for Disaster Records

GLIDE Disaster Events provides GLobal unique IDEntifiers (GLIDEnumbers) for disasters in Brazil. The dataset is published by the GLIDE Initiative and was last updated on 2026-06-23. It aims to make disaster information interoperable across sources like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.

Use Cases

• Link disaster records across different reporting systems based on the unique GLIDEnumber.
• Analyze disaster frequency and types in Brazil based on the registered event records.
• Integrate disaster information from multiple institutional sources using the common identifier.

Strengths

• Provides a globally recognized unique identifier (GLIDEnumber) for interoperability.
• Actively used by major international organizations including UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
• Available in multiple formats including CSV and GEOJSON.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:51:03.853106; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Brazil