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Forest Fire in La Palma Island (2016-08-08)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2016-08-08 09:21:00
Event time (UTC): 2016-08-03 13:15:00
Event type: Forest fire, wild fire

Activation reason:
Around 3.000 people have been preventively evacuated from their houses on the Canary Island of La Palma as a fire started on August 3rd driven by high winds across dry woodland. About 4.700 ha of forest have been affected by the Fires.

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

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) (2016): Forest Fire in La Palma Island (2016-08-08). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/e6957cf1-87ac-4ac0-9010-a9ef875f7b62

Keywords

CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency EMSR173 Emergency Management ESP Forest fire wild fire Mapping Rapid Mapping Spain

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR173]: Forest Fire in La Palma Island (2016-08-08)
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

Type Value
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WKT 
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WKT 
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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
2016-08-08
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR173 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/e6957cf1-87ac-4ac0-9010-a9ef875f7b62
Popularity