DATASET

Flood in Braunschweig (2017-07-27)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2017-07-27 08:16:00
Event time (UTC): 2017-07-27 08:00:00
Event type: Flood (Riverine flood)

Activation reason:
Rain is set to fall across nearly every part of the country on Tuesday and has already hit northern and central areas hard specially in Braunschweig. Southern Lower Saxony and northern Thuringia were battered by storms between Monday and Tuesday, with between 50 to 80 litres of rain per square-metre falling over the last 24 hours - in some areas up to 100 litres.

Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 2
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

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2017): Flood in Braunschweig (2017-07-27). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/ae608b4e-9e9f-41d2-a51b-618e116a7bd2

Keywords

CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service DEU Emergency Emergency Management EMSR215 Flood Germany Mapping Rapid Mapping

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR215]: Flood in Braunschweig (2017-07-27)
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

Type Value
GML
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GML
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WKT
POLYGON ((10.411366734 52.3189643938, 10.6042991773 52.3189643938, 10.6042991773 52.1910490473, 10.411366734 52.1910490473, 10.411366734 52.3189643938))

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
2017-07-27
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR215 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/ae608b4e-9e9f-41d2-a51b-618e116a7bd2
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