DATASET

Forest Fire in Sithonia, Greece (2018-10-26)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2018-10-26 08:43:00
Event time (UTC): 2018-10-25 03:40:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)

Activation reason:
A forest fire broke out in 25-10-2018 in Sithonia area, 100 Km southeast from Thessaloniki in a pine forest. The village of Sarti is under threat and the relocation of its residents is under consideration as a preventative measure.

According to Fire Service 142 personnel with 69 vehicles, plus 32 hand crew firefighters, plus 4 firefighting airplanes and 5 firefighting helicopters, are involved in the operation to bring the fire under control.

Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 2
Grading products: 1

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) (2018): Forest Fire in Sithonia, Greece (2018-10-26). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/b91584ec-c979-4aef-9289-a4e8d5cb9606

Keywords

CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR331 GRC Greece Mapping Rapid Mapping Wildfire

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR331]: Forest Fire in Sithonia, Greece (2018-10-26)
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

Type Value
GML
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GML
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WKT
POLYGON ((23.8903929438 40.1419252439, 24.0041323389 40.1419252439, 24.0041323389 40.0705327951, 23.8903929438 40.0705327951, 23.8903929438 40.1419252439))

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
2018-10-26
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR331 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/b91584ec-c979-4aef-9289-a4e8d5cb9606
Popularity