Description
News related to forest fires in Europe. The news are derived from an automated process with human intervention. The automated process parse a series of RSS news feed, filtered out by keywords and geoparse them. The human intervention, obtained by the help of an ad-hoc web application, is necessary to remove unwanted news and to 'adjust' (update/add/remove) the geoparsed locations for each news.
Contact
Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2010): EFFIS Fire News. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/39b9b5c1-1144-4e36-9509-5df8aa9fd02f
Data access
The EFFIS Fire News for the last 15 days are available to download as a KML file.
Spatial coverage
| Type | Value |
|---|---|
| GML | <gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84"><gml:lowerCorner>-10.58 34.56</gml:lowerCorner><gml:upperCorner>34.59 70.09</gml:upperCorner></gml:Envelope> |
| GEO | POLYGON((-10.58 70.09,34.59 70.09,34.59 34.56,-10.58 34.56,-10.58 70.09)) |
| GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[-10.58,70.09],[34.59,70.09],[34.59,34.56],[-10.58,34.56],[-10.58,70.09]]]} |
Temporal coverage
| From date | To date |
|---|---|
| 2010-07-01 | N/A |
Lineage information
The Fire News data are collated from a range of online media sources (EMM, Google News and European and regional newspapers). For each news, these are the attributes being collected: News title, News url, News date, Fire location, Fire notes, Fire update, Fire start date, Fire end date, Fire size
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-23
- Modified date
- 2021-01-21
- Issued date
- 2010-07-01
- Landing page
- http://effis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/applications/fire-news/
- Language(s)
- English
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/39b9b5c1-1144-4e36-9509-5df8aa9fd02f
- Popularity
-