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Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for mapping disaster risk, hazard, exposure and vulnerability.

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Pipe with dredged material building up an artificial island
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There is an urgent need to evaluate the negative effects and risks associated with coastal artificial structures around the world, especially as climate change makes sea-level rise more extreme.

Conversation Media Group, the
Integrating GIS into flood risk management: A Global South perspective on resilience, planning, and policy thumbnail
Documents and publications

This review examines flood risk delineation and assessment in Nigeria within a broader Global South perspective, synthesising evidence from peer-reviewed studies that employ remote sensing, GIS-based techniques, and multi-criteria decision analysis.

Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Research briefs

More than 750,000 New Zealanders live in locations exposed to flooding from one-in-100-year rainfall flooding events.

University of Waikato
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Korean and Pacific institutions entered into a four-year agreement to enhance earth observation data-driven decision-making capabilities to support coastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP).

Pacific Community
Automated mapping of glacial lakes in Himachal Pradesh using multi source remote sensing data and machine learning thumbnail
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This research introduces an automated method for mapping glacial lakes in Himachal Pradesh based on multi-source remote sensing data and a random forest (RF) classifier.

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)
A closeup of a seismograph machine needle drawing a red line on graph paper
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Machine learning is expanding scientists’ catalogs of quakes and refining maps of underground faults. It also promises to improve quake forecasts.

Eos - AGU
Seismic resilience of urban networks: dataset for infrastructure visualization and vulnerability assessment thumbnail
Documents and publications

This study provides geographic information system (GIS) data and a multimodal dataset from a systematic infrastructure vulnerability assessment in the urban road networks of Turin and Naples, Italy.

Scientific Data (Nature)
Modeling sea level rise scenarios and their effects on smart mobility infrastructure using GIS thumbnail
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This study contributes to the understanding of the complex interplay between climate change, urban infrastructure, and autonomous vehicle systems, as well as the necessity of using higher resolution data for this type of analysis.

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Elsevier)
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