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Kilifarevo Kilifarevo 384000 385000 386000 387000 388000 389000 390000 391000 25°35'0"E 25°36'0"E 25°37'0"E 25°38'0"E 25°39'0"E 25°40'0"E GLIDE number: N/A Activation ID: EMSR-092 Product N.: 03Kilifarevo, v1 Kilifarevo - BULGARIA Flood - 19/06/2014 Delineation Map - Overview 0 #* 0 Production date: 23/06/2014 0 0 0 0 4 4 6 6 7 7 4 #* 4 Romania Y ant ra Serbia Sofia ^ Bulgaria Black N " Severen Sea 0 ' 1 ° 3 tsentralen 4 #* N Greece #* " Sea of 0 #* ' 1 Veliko Marmara ° Aegean Sea Severoiztochen #* 3 Turkey #* 4 #* !( Turnovo Veliko #* Tarnovo Kilifarevo Gabrovo 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 #* 3 6 6 7 7 4 #* 4 Sliven #* Cartographic Information 1:12000 Full color ISO A1, low resolution (100 dpi) 0 0,25 0,5 1 km Grid: W GS 1984 UTM Zone 35N map coordinate system Tick marks: WGS 84 geographical coordinate system ± Legend Crisis Information Hydrology Flooded Area (23/06/2014, 09:24 UTC) River 0 0 0 0 0 0 Debris 2 2 #* Lake 6 6 7 7 4 4 General Information Area of Interest Transportation N " 0 ' Primary Road 0 ° #* Not analyzed 3 4 Local Road N " Settlements 0 ' 0 ° 3 ! 4 Populated Place Industry / Utilities Processing Facility 5 5 !Kilifarevo Consequences within the Overview AOI on 23/06/2014 Affected Total in AOI B ha 0.3 e Flooded area l i t Settlements Industrial ha 0 21 z a 0 0 Transportation Primary roads km 0 8 0 0 0 0 1 1 Local roads km 0 50 6 6 7 7 4 4 #* Map Information Starting from June 19th, 2014 heavy and long lasting rains affected Central and North-east #* Bulgaria causing flash floods and landslides. The most badly affected is the urban area in #* Asparuhovo, South Varna. Damaged roads and streets, buildings, car crushed were #* reported, as well as flooded streets at low level of buildings. There are widespread damaged #* #* infastructures, power and water supply is off in many areas. This map has not been validated #* with in-situ data. Data Sources #* Inset maps based on: Administrative boundaries (JRC 2013, GISCO 2010, © EuroGeographics), Hydrology, Transportation (Natural Earth, 2012, CCM River DB © EU- JRC 2007), Settlements (Geonames, 2013). Pleiades © Airbus Defence and Space 2014 / SPOT Image S.A. (acquired on 12/06/2014 09:10 UTC, GSD 0.5 m, approx. 5% cloud coverage, 16° off-nadir angle) provided under ESA GSC-DA DWH license. All rights reserved. #* Pleiades © Airbus Defence and Space 2014 / SPOT Image S.A. (acquired on 23/06/2014 09:24 UTC, GSD 0.5 m, approx. 1% cloud coverage, 40° off-nadir angle) provided under ESA GSC-DA DWH license. All rights reserved. Base vector layers based on OpenStreetMap © OpenStreetMap contributors, Wikimapia.org, GeoNames (approx. 1:10:000, extracted on 20/06/2014), refined by GAF AG. Source 0 0 information is included in vector data. 0 Area of Interest - Detail 0 0 0 Elevation data: SRTM (90 m posting). Height in meters above mean sea level. 0 0 N " 6 6 0 Population data: Landscan 2010 © UT BATTELLE, LLC. ' 7 7 9 4 4 5 All Data sources are complete and with no gaps. ° 2 4 N " Dissemination/Publication 0 #* ' 9 5 ° Delivery formats are GeoTIFF, GeoPDF, GeoJPEG and vectors (shapefile and KML formats). 2 4 Framework The products elaborated in the framework of current mapping in rush mode activation are #* realized to the best of our ability, within a very short time frame during a crisis, optimising the available data and information. All geographic information has limitations due to scale, resolution, date and interpretation of the original data sources. The products are compliant with GIO-EMS RUSH Product Portfolio specifications. #* Map Production The present map shows the flood delineation in the area of Kilifafarevo (Bulgaria). The basic topographic features are derived from public datasets, refined by means of visual interpretation of pre-event Pleiades image. #* Thematic layers, assessing the delineation of the event, have been derived from post-event Pleiades image. All satellite images have been radiometrically enhanced, orthocorrected with RPC approach #* (using SRTM elevation data) and coregistered to the pre-event image. 0 0 The estimated geometric accuracy of this product is 14 m CE90 or better, from native 0 0 0 0 positional accuracy of the background satellite image. 9 9 The estimated thematic accuracy of this product is 60% or better as it is based on visual 5 5 7 7 4 4 interpretation of recognizable items on very high resolution optical imagery acquired with a #* very high off-nadir angle. Please be aware that the thematic accuracy might be lower in urban and forested areas due to known limitations of the analysis technique. #* Only the area enclosed by the Area of Interest has been analyzed. #* Map produced on 23/06/2014 by GAF AG under contract 257219 with the European #* Commission. All products are © of the European Commission. Name of the release inspector (quality control): e-GEOS (ODO). E-mail: [email protected] #* Map products available at http://emergency.copernicus.eu/mapping/list-of-components/E MSR092 #* Civil Protection Response #* Delineation Map - Overview Planning Pleiades © Airbus Defence and Space Area of Interest - Overview Flood 19-06-2014 N " 0 ' 8 5 #* ° 2 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 N " 8 8 0 ' 5 5 8 7 7 5 ° 4 4 2 4 25°35'0"E 25°36'0"E 25°37'0"E 25°38'0"E 25°39'0"E 25°40'0"E 384000 385000 386000 387000 388000 389000 390000 391000.
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