Description
Activation time (UTC): 2021-08-11 11:20:00
Event time (UTC): 2021-08-11 10:00:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)
Activation reason:
Since 9 August, several forest fires are affecting the north-east of Algeria. The most affected areas are the regions of Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia around 100km east of the capital Algiers. Following media reports, several houses are destroyed and at least 42 people have been killed.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 10
Grading products: 2
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): Algeria Forest Fires (2021-08-11). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/452fc022-5ff1-40a9-b604-62fb276c0cfb
Keywords
Algeria Copernicus Emergency Management Service CEMS Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation DZA Copernicus Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Management Mapping Emergency Wildfire EMSR533 Rapid Mapping
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((3.882550479 36.901448819,5.5211460670001 36.901448819,5.5211460670001 36.140308650672,3.882550479 36.140308650672,3.882550479 36.901448819)) |
GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[3.88255047900003,36.9014488190001],[5.52114606700008,36.9014488190001],[5.52114606700008,36.1403086506723],[3.88255047900003,36.1403086506723],[3.88255047900003,36.9014488190001]]]} |
Lineage information
No additional information
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-08-16
- Modified date
- 2021-09-03
- Issued date
- 2021-08-11
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR533
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/452fc022-5ff1-40a9-b604-62fb276c0cfb
- Popularity
-