Resources for the Natural Disaster Risk Modeling Course
Digital Elevation Models
- USGS (1m): LINK
- NASA Earthdata: https://search.earthdata.nasa.gov/search
- SRTM (90 m): https://srtm.csi.cgiar.org/download
- MERIT Hydro: http://hydro.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yamadai/MERIT_Hydro/index.html
- Diva-GIS: https://www.diva-gis.org/gdata
- ALOS 30m: https://www.eorc.jaxa.jp/ALOS/en/aw3d30/
- Nat’l Snow & Ice Data Center: https://nsidc.org/data
- USGS EarthExplorer: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov
- NOAA Coastal IfSAR and DEMs: https://coast.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/data/coastalifsar.html
- WorldDEM(T) proprietary 12m resolution (potentially costly): https://worlddem-database.terrasar.com/
Bathymetry / Coastlines (US)
- https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/enconline/enconline.html
Exposure-related information
- Landscan: https://landscan.ornl.gov
- Census: https://www.census.gov/data.html
- IPUMS Univ. of Minnesota: https://ipums.org
- Microsoft building footprints: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/maps/building-footprints
- Building inventory of Illinois: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/building-inventory
Vulnerability functions
- In class
Hazard models
- Extended Best Track Dataset: LINK
- Best Track Data (HURDAT2): https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/#hurdat
- NCDC International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) Project: LINK
- Florida Public Hurricane Loss Projection Model: https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/lossmodel/
- Stoch Catalog (many simplifying assumptions): STORM dataset
- More in class