DATASET

Fire in Calabria, Italy (2021-08-11)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2021-08-11 20:46:00
Event time (UTC): 2021-08-08 10:00:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)

Activation reason:
A dangerous situation persists in Calabria, South Italy, due to several fires that are affecting the territory. The flames have restarted in the Aspromonte Mountain around the San Luca Valley, where there are the Unesco heritage beech trees called Faggete Vetuste. Ground teams from other italian regions have been deployed to the affected

places, as well several Canadairs and helicopters.



Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 6
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) (2021): Fire in Calabria, Italy (2021-08-11). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/bc70cf8a-f51c-4106-9cc0-1282d5d74dae

Keywords

CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR534 ITA Italy Rapid Mapping Wildfire Mapping

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR534]: Fire in Calabria, Italy (2021-08-11)
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 ((15.661727414 38.256083805, 16.185291795 38.256083805, 16.185291795 37.913552553, 15.661727414 37.913552553, 15.661727414 38.256083805))

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
2021-08-11
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR534 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/bc70cf8a-f51c-4106-9cc0-1282d5d74dae
Popularity