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Displaying 60 of about 111 resultsBy 2050, more than 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities. Stanford Natural Capital Project researchers have developed software that shows city planners where to invest in nature to improve people’s lives and save billions of dollars.
By Sarah Cafasso
New technology could help cities around the world improve people’s lives while savi…
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Rural Development, Water, and Forests (MAFRWF) has published countrywide satellite-based drought maps online for the first time.
By Rachael McDonnell
Managing drought has become a critical challenge for many countries, especially those in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, where water scarcity is an…
This atlas is a major output of Establishing a Climate Risk Screening System for Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into National Development Budgeting Activities in Bangladesh, under an ADB regional knowledge and support (capacity development) technical assistance. This atlas aims to promote the sustainable development of Bangladesh’s agriculture…
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These predominately Black and brown communities, in fact, are five times more likely than the general population to live within half a mile of a toxic site that could flood by 2050, according to a new statewide mapping project led by environmental health professors at UC Berkeley and UCLA. All told, the ocean could inundate more than 40…
This study aims to provide a tool based on geospatial information science (GIS) analyses to support decision-makers in identifying flood hazards in urban areas, in which previous flood data, flood causative factors, and urban infrastructure data are not adequately available. To assess flood susceptibility in the study area, the related spatial high-reso…
The Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock) today launched the US Climate Resilience Map: A Pathway for City Solutions. This new, publicly available online tool is the first-of-its-kind to map both climate risk and social vulnerability across the United States, arming city leaders…
The mix of climate-induced flood risks and industrial facilities along the Gulf Coast could spell disaster.
This project aims to reduce these risks for people and the environment.
Flooding from hurricanes, heavy rainfall and sea level rise threaten Gulf Coast communities in more ways than one. Not only are homes and businesses subject to flood waters,…
This publication reviews the outcome of floods that were mapped with the SAR-based Finnish Flood Centre's Flood Detection Algorithm (FC-FloDA), a standard threshold-based approach applied to Sentinel-1, and a visual interpretation of Sentinel-2 images. Space-borne remote sensing techniques enable near real-time mapping of floods cost-efficiently. S…
This short course provides an overview of the approach and toolset developed by the Open Data for Resilience Initiative. Major topics covered include the rationale and practices of the open data movement, tools for sharing geospatial data, community mapping and citizen science for disaster and climate risk management, and new approaches for communi…
In this course, the second in the Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Specialization, students will go in-depth with common data types (such as raster and vector data), structures, quality and storage during four week-long modules:
Week 1: Learn about data models and formats, including a full understanding of vector data and raster concepts. Stude…
Industry areas that rely on spatial data analysis, remote sensing, cartography, and data visualization are growing at accelerated rates.
With this online certificate program, students will study at the graduate level to gain the Python programming language and GIS skills they need to advance their career.
Participants will learn to apply data anal…
For several years, an international group of scientists has been working on a European seismic risk model. In autumn this year, the model will be released publicly. Before the release, we, a group of social scientists at ETH Zurich, are testing different products developed in the context of the European seismic risk model. In this survey, you will see s…
By Jaclyn Jeffrey-Wilensky
New York City’s flood maps haven’t been updated in 14 years, potentially putting tens of thousands more New Yorkers in harm’s way and leaving them without a means of paying for damage if a storm should hit.
That’s according to researchers at the New School, who tracked new construction and population changes in six flood-pro…
Climate-vulnerable Commonwealth countries face challenges in accessing climate finance to tackle climate change. Making a robust investment case requires accurate, reliable and timely data, to justify the type of climate action needed.
The Commonwealth Secretariat is driving the call for increased use of satellite derived technologies and data to enhan…
In this webinar you will get an opportunity to get answers to all your unanswered questions about Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite data. What satellites are out there in space? What can they do? When do they pass by above us? How can the data be used for disaster management and prevention? – this, and much more, you will get answers to in this QA se…