Description
Activation time (UTC): 2018-07-24 14:15:00
Event time (UTC): 2018-07-23 09:00:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)
Activation reason:
Two large fires broke out on the central-southern Greece mainland (Attica region) on 23 July 2018, causing significant casualties, village evacuations, damage to property while burning thousands of hectares of forestry. Regional Greek authorities have declared a state of emergency in the eastern and western parts of greater Athens, and the EU Civil Protection Mechanism has been activated to request for aerial and ground firefighting assets.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 6
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
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) (2018): Forest Fires in Attika, Greece (2018-07-24). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/0ba95c65-f330-45ba-ad15-7e81849fbb03
Keywords
CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR300 GRC Mapping Rapid Mapping Wildfire Greece
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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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
- 2018-07-24
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR300
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/0ba95c65-f330-45ba-ad15-7e81849fbb03
- Popularity
-