Description
Activation time (UTC): 2021-08-17 23:09:00
Event time (UTC): 2021-08-17 19:45:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)
Activation reason:
On 17/08/2021, a major fire started on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands). This fire is affecting mainly the El Paso municipality on the west of the island and the rural zone near a biodiverse National Park. Due to adverse weather conditions, the fire could last several days and affect populated areas. Copernicus EMS is requested to provide Delineation and Grading products.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 1
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 La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain (2021-08-17). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/4d2d3dd5-651a-4fbb-be9b-f1c650230d1f
Keywords
Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus Service CEMS Emergency Management Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping EMSR543 Wildfire Emergency ESP Spain 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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GML | <gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84"><gml:lowerCorner>-17.9744726288161 28.6045650225586</gml:lowerCorner><gml:upperCorner>-17.8424312386416 28.6880810292031</gml:upperCorner></gml:Envelope> |
GEO | POLYGON((-17.974472628816 28.688081029203,-17.842431238642 28.688081029203,-17.842431238642 28.604565022559,-17.974472628816 28.604565022559,-17.974472628816 28.688081029203)) |
GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[-17.9744726288161,28.6880810292031],[-17.8424312386416,28.6880810292031],[-17.8424312386416,28.6045650225586],[-17.9744726288161,28.6045650225586],[-17.9744726288161,28.6880810292031]]]} |
Lineage information
No additional information
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-09-03
- Modified date
- 2021-09-03
- Issued date
- 2021-08-17
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR543
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/4d2d3dd5-651a-4fbb-be9b-f1c650230d1f
- Popularity
-