Copernicus EMS fire activations

Overview:

ems.copernicus: fire activations observed event delimitations from 2012 to 2020 resampled to 30 m

Traceability (lineage):

The data source used to produce this dataset is the Copernicus Emergency Management Service, specifically the Rapid Mapping component. All available information has been used, from the activation of the service in 2012 untill 2020, selecting data tagged within the following categories: wildfire, forest fire, land fire, urban fire. For obtaining the rasters, the authors have used the delineation map product provided by EMS, when available. When not available, the First Estimate Product (FEP) was considered. According to the JRC Technical Report "Manual for CEMS-Rapid Mapping Products", the delineation product "provides an assessment of the event impact and extent and, if requested, an update of the situation (monitoring). They are derived from images acquired as soon as possible after the emergency event." The first estimate product is an early information product which aims at providing an extremely fast (yet rough) assessment of most affected locations within the area of interest. For the processing, the vector packages prepared for each of the EMS activation have been used, more specifically the "crisis information layers" detailed here: https://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/ems/group-b-crisis-information-layer . The main document detailing the methdology to obtain the EMS activation products is the JRC Technical Report "Manual for CEMS-Rapid Mapping Products" 2020, by Joubert-Boitat Inès, Wania Annett and Dalmasso Simone.

Scientific methodology:

The Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping methodology of extracting disaster related information is detailed in the 'Manual CEMS for Rapid Mapping Products', published in August 2020 by Joubert-Boitat Inès, Wania Annett, Dalmasso Simone. The documentation is valid from April 2019 and it extends on the work published in 2018 "Product User Manual of Copernicus EMS Rapid

Mapping” by Dorati et al.

The Geo-harmonizer obtained product is represented by a series of rasters, one raster per each season, per each year from 2012 to 2020. In seasons where no fire activation has been registered, the raster has not been produced. For each individual raster, all fire activations relevant vector data packages have been downloaded, processed - by automatically extracting the "crisis information layers" rasterised and resampled at 30 m and mosaicked.

Usability:

Given the methodology that implies VHR data to detect fire burned areas, the data product obtined is useful especially in the context of validation of other fire products, obtained through automatic means.

Uncertainty quantification:

nan

Data validation approaches:

n/a

Completeness:

The CEMS Rapid Mapping functiones based on event triggered by an external entitiy - CEMS Authorised Member - therefore the dataset can not be evaluated for completness.

Consistency:

The rasters are obtained by processing the CEMS vector data, that presented a series of conceptual inconsistencies documented here https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b0XPH8EagA8VQnlnNHmbQ64BWXIoz1WZUSb1ppcEjxM/edit

Positional accuracy:

The raster files cover the entire Geo-harmonizer region as defined by the landmask raster dataset available here [source]. For facilitating the user's interaction with the map product, an additional point vector layer has been prepared containing information on the time of activation and the Emergency Rapid Mapping Service code assigned and link to the official Copernicus Emergency Rapid Mapping Service webpage where all the information on the event has been published, making it easy to quickly identify all relevant information on the specific burned areas activation.

The point layer has been derived as the geometric center of the polygon delineating the burned area activation.

Temporal accuracy:

The Copernicus Emergency Service - Rapid Mapping service is activated based on date-precise triggering of Authorised Members, information that is clearly identified in the data processing.

Thematic accuracy:

The rasters have 2 values: 0 for non-burned area and 100 for burned area.

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Date ( Publication )
NaT
Identifier
unknown
Status
Under development
Author
- Codrina Maria Ilie ( )

Point of contact
- Codrina Maria Ilie

Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Keywords ( Theme )
  • climate
  • Geoharmonizer
  • geoharvester
  • geodata
Keywords ( Place )
  • Europe
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Geographical grid systems
Use limitation
None
Access constraints
Copyright
Use constraints
otherRestictions
Distance
30 m
Metadata language
eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
201203-01-01
End date
202012-12-31
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S
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Reference system identifier
EPSG:3035
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Row
Resolution
30 m
Dimension name
Column
Resolution
30 m
Cell geometry
Area
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( XY )

  • OGC WMS ( 1.3 )

OnLine resource
gh:clm-fireXdisturbance-copernicusXems-p-30m-0XX0cm--eumap-epsg3035-v0X1 ( OGC:WMS )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date
2010-12-08
Explanation
See specified reference
Pass
Yes
Statement
derived from XY

gmd:MD_Metadata

File identifier
da2db19f-b17c-4ab3-893c-9ba226f1db82 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2021-01-14T10:37:57
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
- Codrina Maria Ilie ( )

Citation proposal


Codrina Maria Ilie () (NaT) . Copernicus EMS fire activations.
https://data.opendatascience.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/da2db19f-b17c-4ab3-893c-9ba226f1db82

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