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Forest fires in South America (2019-08-24)

Collection: CEMS-RM : CEMS Rapid Mapping 

Description


Activation time (UTC): 2019-08-24 20:46:00
Event time (UTC): 2019-08-01 10:00:00
Event type: Wildfire (Forest fire)

Activation reason:
Wide areas of South America, especially the Amazonas catchment, currently suffer from a large amount of forest fires. Several states in the Northwest of Brasil are particularly affected. As reported by the Brasilian space agency (INPE), there is an increase in the number of fires of 83 % in 2019, compared to the same period in the preceding year. More than 70.000 fires have been registered so far. Parts of Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina are also affected. This incident is widely described as an international crisis due to the Amazonas rainforests' importance for global climate.

Reference products: 0
Delineation products: 0
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

Email
jrc-ems-rapidmapping (at) ec.europa.eu

Contributors

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2019): Forest fires in South America (2019-08-24). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/be50fa76-ac32-4112-9ca0-c5dfae27a8fe

Keywords

BOL Bolivia BRA Brazil CEMS Copernicus Copernicus Emergency Management Service Copernicus Emergency Management Service Rapid Mapping Activation Copernicus EMS Copernicus Service Emergency Emergency Management EMSR383 Mapping Paraguay PRY Rapid Mapping Wildfire

Data access

Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping Activation [EMSR383]: Forest fires in South America (2019-08-24)
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

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WKT 
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Lineage information

No additional information

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2021-04-19
Modified date
2021-04-19
Issued date
2019-08-24
Landing page
https://emergency.copernicus.eu/EMSR383 
Language(s)
English
Data theme(s)
Regions and cities, Science and technology
Update frequency
unknown
Identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/be50fa76-ac32-4112-9ca0-c5dfae27a8fe
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