Copernicus EMS fire activations delimitations (2012 - 2020) rasterised at 30m and aggregated per year and season

This dataset was created as part of the Geo-harmonizer project, with the scope of making open data easier to access. It contains all the fire activations (forest fire, wild fire, wildfire) mapped by the Copernicus Emergency Rapid Mapping Service between 2012 and 2020. To obtain these GeoTIFFs, the vector data packages from CEMS were individually downloaded, rasterized and mosaicked per year and season, resampled at 30-m and reprojected to EPSG 3035: ETRS89-extended / LAEA Europe. If no CEMS fire activation was identified in a specific year and season, the raster was not created. The rasters are provided as COG files, type=16Int, nodata value is 255.

To allow an easier and faster search through all 2012 - 2020 CEMS fire activations, we have prepared a point vector layer (geojson) containing one point for each fire activation area of interest with the following attributes attached: CEMS identification number <ems_id>, area of interest defined by CEMS <ems_aoi>, URL link to the CEMS activation <ems_link>, year of the event <year_start>, <year_end> , <season> and the name of the <geo_harmonizer_raster> where the 30m rasterised delimitations of the burned areas of the corresponding fire activation can be found. 

For any additional questions regarding the data please contact the author at codrina.ilie[at]terrasigna.com.

The Copernicus Emergency Rapid Mapping Service data access policy is available here.