Description
Activation time (UTC): 2018-08-14 09:08:00
Event time (UTC): 2018-08-12 15:24:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)
Activation reason:
On 12 August, a forest fire broke out on the Greek island of Evia, near Athens. The residents of Kondodespoti and Stavros villages were preventively evacuated. The K349 Agrilitsa-Katavothra-Kalamaki wild life park was directly threatened by the fire.
Copernicus EMS Mapping products will be used for a rapid assessment of the fire perimeter to assist the fire service in mop up operations, as well as to prevent any possible re-ignitions of the fire.
Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 2
Grading products: 0
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) (2018): Forest Fire in Evia Island, Greece (2018-08-14). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/fce9c770-73da-4bad-9892-ea062c129a59
Keywords
CEMS Emergency Management Copernicus Mapping EMSR306 Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation GRC Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Copernicus Service Greece Wildfire Emergency
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((23.5810943731 38.6565610753,23.6986490017 38.6565610753,23.6986490017 38.5811949673,23.5810943731 38.5811949673,23.5810943731 38.6565610753)) |
GEO | {"type":"Polygon","crs":{"type":"name","properties":{"name":"urn:ogc:def:crs:OGC:1.3:CRS84"}},"coordinates":[[[23.5810943731,38.6565610753],[23.6986490017,38.6565610753],[23.6986490017,38.5811949673],[23.5810943731,38.5811949673],[23.5810943731,38.6565610753]]]} |
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
- 2018-08-14
- Landing page
- https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR306
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/fce9c770-73da-4bad-9892-ea062c129a59
- Popularity
-