DATASET

Post-wildfire damage assessment in Portbou, Spain (2023-08-17)

Collection: CEMS-RRM : CEMS Risk and Recovery Mapping 

Description

Activation date: 2023-08-17

Event type: Other

Activation reason:

This CEMS Risk and Recovery Standard activation has been requested to provide damage delineation and grading product over the municipality of Portbou, in the region of Girona (Spain), which was hit by a forest fire on 04th August 2023, started around 14:30 (UTC).According to the news, firefighters from Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia teamed up with French colleagues as the blaze ravaged some 435 hectares (1,100 acres) of land, with an estimated 2,500 hectares threatened.The goal of the activation is to provide the wildfire wildfire damage delineation and grading product and at supporting the damage assessment.The P07-Wildfire delineation and grading product shows the delineation of the burnt area and the associated level of damage as derived from post-event optical VHR images. The analysis resulted in 500.04 ha burnt, of which 412.59 ha only slightly damaged, 81.67 moderately damaged, 5.72 ha highly damaged, and 0.06 ha destroyed.The P14-Impact assessment analysis on assets and population provides an asset and population impact assessment analysis following the fire in Portbou. The analysis was carried out on the basis of reference datasets and LULC information. The main outputs of this product were the general statistics on the assets and population affected by the event, resulting from the spatial intersection between the event and the reference strata. The summary statistics are presented in tabular form. In terms of area, the greatest damage was suffered by shrubland vegetation (372.57 hectares) and coniferous copse (78.91 hectares).

Contact

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

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2023): Post-wildfire damage assessment in Portbou, Spain (2023-08-17). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/14f0aaba-4a14-5614-b0ac-ae71c143e26b

Keywords

CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency EMSN163 Emergency Management ESP Mapping Other Risk and Recovery Mapping Spain

Data access

Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation [EMSN163]: Post-wildfire damage assessment in Portbou, Spain (2023-08-17)
URL 
  • Maps produced in scope of this Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping activation downloadable as georeferenced PDFs, TIFFs and JPEGs together with relevant geodatabase (GDB) and complete final report as well.

Spatial coverage

Type Value
GML
<gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml">  <gml:outerBoundaryIs>    <gml:LinearRing>      <gml:coordinates>3.07609,42.43005 3.1734,42.43005 3.1734,42.35373 3.07609,42.35373 3.07609,42.43005</gml:coordinates>    </gml:LinearRing>  </gml:outerBoundaryIs></gml:Polygon>
GML
<gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2">  <gml:exterior>    <gml:LinearRing>      <gml:posList>3.07609 42.43005 3.1734 42.43005 3.1734 42.35373 3.07609 42.35373 3.07609 42.43005</gml:posList>    </gml:LinearRing>  </gml:exterior></gml:Polygon>
WKT
POLYGON ((3.07609 42.43005, 3.1734 42.43005, 3.1734 42.35373, 3.07609 42.35373, 3.07609 42.43005))

Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2023-08-17
Modified date
2023-08-17
Issued date
2023-08-17
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSN163 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/14f0aaba-4a14-5614-b0ac-ae71c143e26b
Popularity