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Flood in Townsville, Australia (2019-02-01)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2019-02-01 04:45:00
Event time (UTC): 2019-01-31 12:00:00
Event type: Flood (Riverine flood)

Activation reason:
In the past few days the city of Townsville, Australia has been hit by severe rain. The situation is expected to continue for the next two days reaching its peak on Sunday 3rd of February, so more water will be released from the Ross River Dam. Several zones have been already flooded, and many more homes will be evacuated in the suburbs. The Authorities declared Townsville and its surroundings a disaster area.

Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 18
Grading products: 0

Copernicus Emergency Management Service - Mapping is a service funded by European Commission aimed at providing actors in the management of natural and man-made disasters, in particular Civil Protection Authorities and Humanitarian Aid actors, with mapping products based on satellite imagery.

Contact

Email
jrc-ems-rapidmapping (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2019): Flood in Townsville, Australia (2019-02-01). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/09988ccf-cc4d-43a3-b221-05756bc78eb9

Keywords

AUS Australia CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR342 Flood Mapping Rapid Mapping Copernicus EMS

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR342]: Flood in Townsville, Australia (2019-02-01)
Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice 
Access conditions
No limitations 
URL 

  • All maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant vector data (SHP, KML) as well.

Spatial coverage

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WKT 
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WKT 
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Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2022-11-17
Modified date
2022-11-17
Issued date
2019-02-01
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR342 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/09988ccf-cc4d-43a3-b221-05756bc78eb9
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