Description
Activation time (UTC): 2016-10-03 16:46:00
Event time (UTC): 2016-10-03 09:30:00
Event type: Other
Activation reason:
A ferocious hurricane is threatening to wreak havoc on Haiti as it trudges through the Caribbean Sea. Hurricane Matthew, a slow-moving storm, is expected to dump dozens of inches of torrential rainfall over Haiti in the next hours, with great danger for population and infrastructures.
Reference products: 54
Delineation products: 36
Grading products: 43
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
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2016): Tropical cyclone in Haiti (2016-10-03). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/50437f74-0971-4465-a272-d1bcb9fcf624
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR185 Haiti HTI Mapping Other Rapid Mapping
Data access
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
Type | Value |
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GML | <gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2"> <gml:exterior> <gml:LinearRing> <gml:posList>-74.4642474665 19.963537489 -72.218817 19.963537489 -72.218817 18.0365281393 -74.4642474665 18.0365281393 -74.4642474665 19.963537489</gml:posList> </gml:LinearRing> </gml:exterior></gml:Polygon> |
WKT | POLYGON ((-74.4642474665 19.963537489, -72.218817 19.963537489, -72.218817 18.0365281393, -74.4642474665 18.0365281393, -74.4642474665 19.963537489)) |
Lineage information
No additional information
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-19
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2016-10-03
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR185
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/50437f74-0971-4465-a272-d1bcb9fcf624
- Popularity
-