DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6778864
title: ECFAS Pan-EU Impact Catalogue, D5.4 – Pan-EU flood maps catalogue - ECFAS project (GA 101004211), www.ecfas.eu

description: The European Copernicus Coastal Flood Awareness System (ECFAS) project aimed at contributing to the evolution of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (https://emergency.copernicus.eu/) by demonstrating the technical and operational feasibility of a European Coastal Flood Awareness System. Specifically, ECFAS provides a much-needed solution to bolster coastal resilience to climate risk and reduce population and infrastructure exposure by monitoring and supporting disaster preparedness, two factors that are fundamental to damage prevention and recovery if a storm hits.

The ECFAS Proof-of-Concept development ran from January 2021 to December 2022. The ECFAS project was a collaboration between Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS di Pavia (Italy, ECFAS Coordinator), Mercator Ocean International (France), Planetek Hellas (Greece), Collecte Localisation Satellites (France), Consorzio Futuro in Ricerca (Italy), Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (Spain), University of the Aegean (Greece), and EurOcean (Portugal), and was funded by the European Commission H2020 Framework Programme within the call LC-SPACE-18-EO-2020 - Copernicus evolution: research activities in support of the evolution of the Copernicus services. 

Reference literature:

Duo, E., Montes, J., Le Gal, M., Fernández-Montblanc, T., Ciavola, P., and Armaroli, C.: Validated probabilistic approach to estimate flood direct impacts on the population and assets on European coastlines, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 13–39, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-25-13-2025, 2025.

Montes, J., Duo, E., Souto, P., Gastal, V., Grigoriadis, D., Le Gal, M., Fernández-Montblanc, T., Delbour, S., Ieronymidi, E., Armaroli, C., and Ciavola, P.: Evaluating coastal flood impacts at the EU-scale: the ECFAS approach, EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-11295, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-11295, 2022.

Description of the files contained in the Dataset

The ECFAS Pan-EU Impact Catalogue collects impact layers associated to the flood scenarios contained in the ECFAS Pan-EU Flood Catalogue. To produce the Flood Catalogue, the coast was divided into geographic regions embracing similar oceanographic conditions, and subsequently into coastal sectors. The coastal sectors can be identified by its region index RXXX and its own index CSYYY. Impacts associated to the flood maps were calculated following the approach described in the technical document of the ECFAS Deliverable 5.3 Algorithms for Impact Assessment (ECFAS Impact Tool; Duo et al., 2021). The ECFAS Impact Tool was adapted to assess the affected population, the damage to buildings, roads and railways and the exposure of a variety of other assets (e.g. agriculture, points of interest, etc.) for the flood scenarios included in the ECFAS Flood Catalogue.

The shapefile of the polygons defining the coastal sectors as defined for the catalogue implementation is included in the database.

The Pan-EU Impact Catalogue is associated with the following additional ECFAS products: 

- The ECFAS Pan-EU Flood Catalogue

Flood Catalogue in Zenodo: Le Gal, M., Fernández Montblanc, T., Montes Pérez, J., Duo, E., Souto Ceccon, P.E., Cabrita, P., & Ciavola, P. (2022). ECFAS Pan-EU Flood Catalogue, D5.4 – Pan-EU flood maps catalogue - ECFAS project (GA 101004211), https://www.ecfas.eu/ (1.2) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6778807

Flood Catalogue Reference literature: Le Gal, M., Fernández-Montblanc, T., Duo, E., Montes Perez, J., Cabrita, P., Souto Ceccon, P., Gastal, V., Ciavola, P., and Armaroli, C.: A new European coastal flood database for low–medium intensity events, Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 3585–3602, https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-23-3585-2023, 2023.

- The ECFAS Impact Tool

Impact Tool in Zenodo: Duo, E., Montes Pérez, J., and Souto-Ceccon, P.E. (2021). ECFAS Impact Tool, D5.3 – Algorithms for impact assessment - ECFAS project (GA 101004211), www.ecfas.eu, link: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5809296

 

The Impact Catalogue is accompanied by a technical document describing methods, datasets, structure, format and content of the ECFAS Flood and Impact Catalogues:

- Duo, E., Le Gal, M., Souto Ceccon, P.E., Montes Pérez, J., 2022. Technical document on the ECFAS Flood and Impact Catalogue, D5.4 – Pan-EU flood maps catalogue - ECFAS project (GA 101004211). www.ecfas.eu

 

This ECFAS Impact Catalogue is made available under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/. Any rights in individual contents of the Impact Catalogue are licensed under the Open Database License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/dbcl/1.0/.

The technical document describing methods, datasets, structure, format and content of the ECFAS Flood and Impact Catalogues is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

*The size of the uncompressed dataset is 211 GB.

Disclaimer:

ECFAS partners provide the data "as is" and "as available" without warranty of any kind. The ECFAS partners shall not be held liable resulting from the use of the information and data provided.

This project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101004211