Wildfire in Western Australia (2021-02-05)

Description

Activation time (UTC): 2021-02-05 05:32:00
Event time (UTC): 2021-02-05 00:00:00
Event type: Wildfire (Land fire: brush, bush, pasture)

Activation reason:
The Australian state of Western Australia has experienced 5 days of extreme fire conditions resulting in significant fire activity and property/infrastructure loss in an area immediately adjacent to the major city of Perth. Damage assessments are underway, however there are large areas that remain inaccessible. Conditions are expected to deterioriate throughout today and tomorrow as the remnants of a Tropical Low pass through the fire affected area.

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

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2021): Wildfire in Western Australia (2021-02-05). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/ee67b582-4e3a-4029-832a-0618557965d3

Keywords

Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation AUS Australia Mapping Emergency Management Emergency CEMS Wildfire Rapid Mapping Copernicus EMS EMSR500

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR500]: Wildfire in Western Australia (2021-02-05)

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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GEO

POLYGON((115.94345647094 -31.664221930685,116.41316432183 -31.664221930685,116.41316432183 -31.832591525056,115.94345647094 -31.832591525056,115.94345647094 -31.664221930685))

GEO

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Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date: 2021-05-13
Modified date: 2021-05-13
Issued date: 2021-02-05
Landing page: https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR500
Language(s): English
Data theme(s): Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency: unknown
Identifier: http://data.europa.eu/89h/ee67b582-4e3a-4029-832a-0618557965d3
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