Description
Activation time (UTC): 2017-09-07 12:40:00
Event time (UTC): 2017-09-06 11:00:00
Event type: Storm (Tropical cyclone, hurricane, typhoon)
Activation reason:
The islands of Sint Maarten, Saba and Sint Eustatius were struck by Hurricane IRMA on 7 September 2017. All three islands were impacted, but Sint Maarten sustained the most damage. The French part of the island was “95% destroyed” and a number of fatalities have been reported. In response the Netherlands has sent marines to St Maarten, and two aid flights.
Reference products: 2
Delineation products: 0
Grading products: 4
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) (2017): Hurricane Irma in Sint Maarten (2017-09-07). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/dec10c71-27e8-410a-b05b-a7fc69244dd1
Keywords
Copernicus ANT Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Service CEMS Emergency Mapping Copernicus EMS Emergency Management Rapid Mapping EMSR234 Netherlands Antilles Storm
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 |
|---|---|
| GML | <gml:Envelope srsName="http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/OGC/1.3/CRS84"><gml:lowerCorner>-63.1458438573 18.00381391</gml:lowerCorner><gml:upperCorner>-62.9914105454 18.0642752655</gml:upperCorner></gml:Envelope> |
| GEO | POLYGON((-63.1458438573 18.0642752655,-62.9914105454 18.0642752655,-62.9914105454 18.00381391,-63.1458438573 18.00381391,-63.1458438573 18.0642752655)) |
| GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[-63.1458438573,18.0642752655],[-62.9914105454,18.0642752655],[-62.9914105454,18.00381391],[-63.1458438573,18.00381391],[-63.1458438573,18.0642752655]]]} |
Lineage information
No additional information
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-04-23
- Modified date
- 2021-04-19
- Issued date
- 2017-09-07
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR234
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/dec10c71-27e8-410a-b05b-a7fc69244dd1
- Popularity
-