Forest Fire in Tuscany, Italy (2018-09-26)

Description

Activation time (UTC): 2018-09-26 16:21:00
Event time (UTC): 2018-09-24 20:00:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)

Activation reason:
The tail end of the summer campaign a big fire is affecting the Tuscany

region (Pisa Province). The weather conditions, with strong winds and dry, are very favourable to ignition and spreading of forest fires in the area of Pisa province. The strong wind conditions have been persisting also for the next hours and days. The fire is involving a large area arriving up to towns and villages. Several people (more than 700) have been temporary evacuated due to issues caused also by the smoke.The event is involving local and Statal resources in terms of men and means.

Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 3
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

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

Contributors

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2018): Forest Fire in Tuscany, Italy (2018-09-26). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/4c824f2a-034d-458a-8a8c-dfeccb729d03

Keywords

Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus EMS Emergency Copernicus Service EMSR316 Emergency Management ITA Italy Mapping Rapid Mapping Wildfire CEMS

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR316]: Forest Fire in Tuscany, Italy (2018-09-26)

Use conditions: European Commission reuse notice
Access conditions: No limitations

URL

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

GML

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GML

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WKT

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Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date: 2021-04-19
Modified date: 2021-04-19
Issued date: 2018-09-26
Landing page: https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR316
Language(s): English
Data theme(s): Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency: unknown
Identifier: http://data.europa.eu/89h/4c824f2a-034d-458a-8a8c-dfeccb729d03
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