United Arab Emirates Disaster Events with GLIDE Identifiers

GLIDE numbers are GLobal unique IDEntifiers for Disasters, enabling interoperability across multiple disaster information sources. The Asian Disaster Reduction Center proposed this system to address the challenge of scattered and confusing disaster data. This dataset catalogs disaster events in the United Arab Emirates using this standard.

Use Cases

• Cross-reference disaster impacts across different UN and international agency reports based on the common GLIDE identifier.
• Map disaster event locations and types for the United Arab Emirates based on the geospatial file format.
• Analyze disaster frequency and types in a specific region using the structured disaster event records.

Strengths

• Data is interoperable across major international organizations like UN-OCHA, UNDRR, and IFRC.
• Available in both CSV and GeoJSON formats, supporting tabular and geospatial analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

GLIDE Initiative

Collection Method

Registered disaster records from multiple sources using a common identifier system.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 23:50:20.693831; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Arab Emirates