Description
Activation time (UTC): 2021-03-23 13:58:00
Event time (UTC): 2021-03-22 00:00:00
Event type: Wildfire (Urban fires)
Activation reason:
On 22 March 2021, a major fire broke out in Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar. It is estimated that around 10 000 shelters were destroyed or damaged. In the first 24 hours, 15 fatalities were reported with 400 people still missing. The damage to vital infrastructure is extensive, with total destruction of health centres, hospitals, water infrastructure, distribution points, learning centres and other structures. Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping has been activated for a situation assessment.
Reference products: 1
Delineation products: 0
Grading products: 1
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/jrc/en
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2021): Fire in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh (2021-03-23). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/3d737d22-d2dd-4efb-834e-47b2bf3223ca
Keywords
Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS BGD Copernicus Service Bangladesh Emergency Emergency Management EMSR505 CEMS Mapping Rapid Mapping Wildfire
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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GEO | POLYGON((92.134037709858 21.213303599562,92.170072475687 21.213303599562,92.170072475687 21.177039020078,92.134037709858 21.177039020078,92.134037709858 21.213303599562)) |
GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[92.1340377098584,21.2133035995618],[92.1700724756873,21.2133035995618],[92.1700724756873,21.1770390200783],[92.1340377098584,21.1770390200783],[92.1340377098584,21.2133035995618]]]} |
Lineage information
No additional information
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-05-13
- Modified date
- 2021-05-13
- Issued date
- 2021-03-23
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR505
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/3d737d22-d2dd-4efb-834e-47b2bf3223ca
- Popularity
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