The Copernicus emergency management service monitors flooding in Greece 1 / 4 On 12 January the Alfeios River, located in the Ilia Prefecture in western Greece, overflowed and flooded vast rural areas near the villages of Sekoulas, Dafnoula, Makrisia, Kalivakia, Frixa and Aspra Spitia. The Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping component was activated on 14 January to produce emergency maps over two Areas of Interest (AoIs). The requested delineation maps show 129.1 ha (12.9 km2) of the area flooded within the AoIs. Our #RapidMappimgTeam is waiting for VHR radar imagery to map floods in ?? Greece along the Alfeiós river Here is a view by #Sentinel1 ???? (flooded areas in black) NB: The scale of the maps requested by the user is such that we cannot use our own satellites & have to order data pic.twitter.com/OXX8HdHoOX — Copernicus EU (@CopernicusEU) 15 January 2019 The maps and vector data are available for viewing and download on the EMS website. 2 / 4 For updates on our activations, follow Copernicus EMS on Twitter. Learn more about the Copernicus Programme and its Emergency Management Service. The AoIs identified for emergency map production (Copernicus EMS © 2019 EU, [EMSR337] Activation Extent Map) 3 / 4 The flood delineation map of Alfeios West shows 110.1 ha (1.1 km2) of the area were affected at the time of satellite imagery acquisition (Copernicus EMS © 2019 EU, [EMSR337] Alfeios West: Delineation Map) For more information contact [email protected] +32 495 544 844 (European CET time) Follow our Twitter feed @CopernicusEMS where maps and vector data are posted automatically in near real-time Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org) 4 / 4.