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.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR500 |
Tags
- emergency-management
- emergency
- copernicus-service
- copernicus
- wildfire
- copernicus-emergency-management-service-rapid-mapping-activation
- cems
- australia
- copernicus-emergency-management-service
- rapid-mapping
- aus
- mapping
- emsr500
- copernicus-ems
Topics
- REGI
- TECH