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
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): 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
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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GEO | POLYGON((115.94345647094 -31.664221930685,116.41316432183 -31.664221930685,116.41316432183 -31.832591525056,115.94345647094 -31.832591525056,115.94345647094 -31.664221930685)) |
GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[115.943456470935,-31.6642219306847],[116.413164321828,-31.6642219306847],[116.413164321828,-31.832591525056],[115.943456470935,-31.832591525056],[115.943456470935,-31.6642219306847]]]} |
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
- Popularity
-