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Post Matthew monitoring on rural areas, South Region of Haiti (2018-05-16)

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Activation date: 2018-05-16

Event type: Storm

Activation reason:

Support monitoring of recovery after the passage of the Category 5 Hurricane Matthew on the 4th of October 2016. Six areas were selected to analyse several environmental aspects, including agricultural activities, forest in protected areas, mangrove areas, and finally coastline modifications. The geographical focus of this work is the Western area of the Grand’Anse, Haiti, which was severely affected.The aim is to build a comprehensive database to support recovery aid organizations in recovery monitoring of the critical resources destroyed. This information is to be used by local governmental organisation and users.Proposed solution and results:Map of tree-cover before and after Hurricane Matthew and, documenting damage assessment for parklands and mangroves areas.Map agricultural activities before and after Hurricane Matthew including landscape changes within agricultural areas.Map the coastline before and after Hurricane Matthew to indicate coastal erosion due to the wave action of the storm. 

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026): Post Matthew monitoring on rural areas, South Region of Haiti (2018-05-16). [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.EEYD9V8 PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/2c2d0edf-74f3-49ad-96a7-0a5b654d3f80

Keywords

CEMSCopernicusCopernicus Emergency Management ServiceCopernicus Emergency Management Service Risk and Recovery Mapping ActivationCopernicus EMSCopernicus ServiceEmergencyEmergency ManagementEMSN051HaitiHTIMappingRisk and Recovery MappingStorm

Data access

Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation [EMSN051]: Post Matthew monitoring on rural areas, South Region of Haiti (2018-05-16)
Esri File Geodatabase

GDB is an Esri's file-based geodatabase format, stored as folders in a file system. It shall be used for Esri file geodatabases. The file is a zip archive that contains the gdb directory.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

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Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • 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

No additional information

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
2018-05-16
Created date
02 Mar 2026 17:07
Modified date
12 Apr 2021 04:26
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSN051 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/2c2d0edf-74f3-49ad-96a7-0a5b654d3f80
Other identifiers
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