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Fires in Greece

Type of Event:	Fires
Location of Event:	Greece
Date of Charter Activation:	29/08/2007
Charter Requestor:	General Secretariat for Civil Protection of Greece
Project Management:	ESA

Description of Event

In response to the request from the Department of Emergency Planning and Response of the Greek Civil Protection concerning the severe fire events that affected their territory since 21 August, the European Space Agency (ESA) has taken the responsibility of the Charter Project Management, and, in collaboration with the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (the French Space Agency, CNES), have organised a team of value adding organisations to deliver crisis mapping products. This group is based on Greek, French and German partners; for instance, the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing of the National Observatory of Athens, under contract to ESA within the RISK-EOS GMES Service Element project; SERTIT, with support from CNES; the German DLR ZKI organisation, another partner of RISK-EOS.
A series of EO based crisis/damage mapping products have been generated using a variety of Earth Observation sensors, such as, in the early phase of activation, Medium Resolution Optical data from ENVISAT MERIS, DMC (incl. Nigeriasat-1), Landsat, SAC-C, SPOT and FORMOSAT.

Images and/or Image Products Delivered under the Charter

Fire Locations
Source: Envisat MERIS FR, 300m/pixel resolution.
Acquired: 21-30/08/2007
Burnt areas and vegetation index over vector layers showing roads, inland water and urban areas.
Copyright: EO Data Copyright ESA 2007
Image processing, map created 02/09/2007 by SERTIT.
Higher resolution version

Fire Locations
Source: Envisat MERIS FR, 300m/pixel resolution.
Acquired: 21-30/08/2007
Copyright: First assessment of burnt areas generated by SERTIT using Envisat MERIS Full Resolution data from 21 and 30 August 2007 and an overview of the 16 areas of the total damage mapping work conducted by the coordinated European providers group. EO Data copyright: ESA; Credits: SERTIT; ESA; CNES; International Charter.
EO Data Copyright ESA 2007
Image processing, map created 02/09/2007 by SERTIT.
Higher resolution version

Fires in Sparta
Source: Envisat MERIS; DMC Nigeria-Sat-1; Landsat , 300m/pixel resolution.
Acquired: 28-30/08/2007; 01/09/2007
Copyright: Damage mapping product generated by SERTIT using Landsat, Envisat MERIS Full Resolution and DMC imagery acquired during the event (respectively on 28 and 30 August and 1 September 2007). Within the burnt areas contour, the crisis imagery is shown, including smoke around active fires. EO Data copyright: USGS, ESA, NASDRA/DMCii; Credits: SERTIT; CNES; International Charter.
EO Data Copyright ESA, DMCii 2007, credit USGS 2007
Image processing, map created 02/09/2007 by SERTIT.
Higher resolution version

Greece Stira Burnt Areas
Source: DMC Nigeria-Sat-1; Landsat , 300m/pixel resolution.
Acquired: 01/09/2007
Copyright: Final damage mapping product generated by DLR showing the burnt areas contour overlaid on a pre-crisis Landsat background image. The contour was derived using DMC Nigeria-Sat-1 imagery of the burnt area on 1 September 2007. EO Data copyright: NASDRA/DMCii, USGS; Credits: DLR ZKI; ESA; International Charter; RISK EOS.
Copyright DMCii 2007, credit USGS 2007
Image processing, map created 02/09/2007 by DLR.
Higher resolution version

Additional data

Additional data and higher-resolution imagery is available at:

SERTIT:
http://sertit.u-strasbg.fr/documents/greece_2007/greece_2007.html

DLR ZKI:
http://www.zki.dlr.de/applications/2007/greece/140_en.html