DATASET

Post-Friederike forest damage assessment in Germany, Hesse (2018-06-08)

Collection: CEMS-RRM : CEMS Risk and Recovery Mapping 

Description


Activation date: 2018-06-08
Event type: Storm

Activation reason:


Friederike storm hit several countries across Western Europe in early 2018, causing extensive damages and traffic disruption. While centred over Germany winds speed up to 200 km/h caused  severe damage across the country.The objective of the current activation is to provide a baseline database to perform a damage assessment on forests, after the storm Friederike in support of planning and forest management activities in Federal State of Hessen.  The Hessen is the most forested state in Germany, covering up to 40% of its surface area. As such, the health of the forests is of importance to the economy of this region.Pre-event Forest UpdatingAn updated vector layer showing the pre-event extent of forests in the Area of Interest (AOI) is provided in the Land Use/Land Cover Feature Class (LULC).The forest classes of the German LULC dataset (2012) were updated using available pre-event SPOT 6 and 7 imagery (2016), acquired not more than 16 months prior to the Friederike wind-storm.This reference forest cover information was used as the base layer for the damage assessment area estimation. Forest damages assessmentThe damage assessment in forest areas was performed by comparison of the pre-event (2016) and post-event (2018) satellite imagery from SPOT 6 and 7 sensors (1.5 m resolution). Experienced photo interpreters looked for changes between the two dates. The changes detected were classified in three categories: Damage (clear evidences of damages, in red), Potential Damage (not strong evidences of damages, in orange) and Felling/clear cutting (areas under maintenance, in pink).  In a final step, some conclusions can be drawn:The majority of the delineated damage present evidence of maintenance works on the forestIt makes sense that the maintenance works in damaged forest of the State of Hessen were in an advanced stage, due to several reasons:The main business in the area is timber industry.Broken logs after Friederike could have been wasted if not cleared away from winter weather conditions as soon as possible.Economic losses can be mitigated if performing early maintenance works.The post-event imagery used was acquired 4 and 6 months after the catastrophic event.

Contact

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

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2018): Post-Friederike forest damage assessment in Germany, Hesse (2018-06-08). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/442912ab-2892-4ce3-af72-d7766d2078be

Keywords

CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service DEU Emergency Emergency Management EMSN052 Germany Mapping Risk and Recovery Mapping Copernicus Emergency Management Service Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation Storm

Data access

Copernicus EMS Risk and Recovery Mapping Activation [EMSN052]: Post-Friederike forest damage assessment in Germany, Hesse (2018-06-08)
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
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GML
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WKT
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Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2021-04-12
Modified date
2021-04-12
Issued date
2018-06-08
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSN052 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/442912ab-2892-4ce3-af72-d7766d2078be
Popularity