GLIDE Disaster Events: Georeferenced Disaster Records for Laos

GLIDEnumbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters, designed to make disaster information interoperable across multiple sources. The Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) proposed this globally common Unique ID code to address the challenge of scattered and confusing disaster identification. This dataset contains records of disaster events for the Lao People's Democratic Republic.

Use Cases

• Cross-referencing disaster impacts across different reporting agencies based on the common GLIDE identifier.
• Mapping disaster event locations and extents based on the provided geospatial (GEOJSON) format.
• Analyzing disaster frequency and types in Laos based on the registered disaster records.
• Integrating disaster data with other humanitarian datasets using the standardized GLIDE number.

Strengths

• Implements a globally recognized identifier (GLIDE) used by UN-OCHA, UNDRR, IFRC, and other major institutions.
• Available in both GEOJSON and CSV formats, offering flexibility for geospatial and tabular analysis.
• Licensed under CC-BY-3.0-IGO, permitting sharing and adaptation with attribution.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Freshness should be verified; the last metadata update is dated 2026-06-23.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:54:06.578344

Geography

Lao People's Democratic Republic