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Avalanche in Sauris, Italy (2021-03-12)

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Activation date: 2021-03-12

Event type: Mass movement

Activation reason:

The scope of the current activation is the support of Regional Civil Protection of Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) with geospatial analysis regarding the extent of the recent avalanches and their associated impacts, as well as a pre-event avalanche hazard and exposure of assets and population over the remote locality of Sauris in the province of Udine. Between December 2020 and January 2021 intense snowfalls affected Region Friuli Venezia Giulia. In that period several warnings for avalanche risks were issued in the area. In particular, on 6 January 2021 in the municipality of Sauris, the wet snow caused the detachment of several avalanches with interruption of the road network between mountain towns and possible damages to the electrical infrastructures. As requested by the User, a set of five pre/post-event products was produced over a single area of interest centered on the locality of Sauris.Proposed solution and resultsA reference dataset, including Land Use Land Cover, produced by mean of visual interpretation (Product 1).An avalanche delineation based on the helicopter footage performed right after the event (Product 2).A damage assessment (Product 3) based on the intersection between Products 1 and 2, due to the lack of relevant post-event data.A Pre-event avalanche hazard analysis (Product 4), obtained by a multi-criteria evaluation approach, using natural (topography, snow volume) and Land Cover factors.A pre-event avalanche exposure on assets and population, which corresponds to the spatial juxtaposition of avalanche hazard (Product 5) with the location of Highly Valued Resources and Assets.Reference layers produced over Sauris (Product 1)LULC layers produced over Sauris (Product 1)Avalanche areas delineated as light stripe polygons (Product 2)Pre-event avalanche hazard map (Product 4)

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026): Avalanche in Sauris, Italy (2021-03-12). [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.MC1FF8R PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/1847a182-ae01-41b3-8b1b-6f0b0f3d6ed1

Keywords

CEMSCopernicusCopernicus Emergency Management ServiceCopernicus Emergency Management Service Risk and Recovery Mapping ActivationCopernicus EMSCopernicus ServiceEmergencyEmergency ManagementEMSN088ITAItalyMappingMass movementRisk and Recovery Mapping

Data access

Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation [EMSN088]: Avalanche in Sauris, Italy (2021-03-12)
Esri File Geodatabase

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Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

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Access conditions
No limitations

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  • 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

Lineage information

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Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
jrc-data-support (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
unknown

The event occurs with unknown regularity.

Language(s)
English

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Data theme(s)
Regions and cities

dataset theme covering the domains of regions and cities, where regions is defined by political geography units including sovereign states, subnational administrative areas, and multinational groupings, and cities are characterised as large human settlements
Science and technology

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Issued date
2021-03-12
Created date
02 Mar 2026 17:07
Modified date
13 May 2021 08:20
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSN088 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/1847a182-ae01-41b3-8b1b-6f0b0f3d6ed1
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