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/

• USGS general info about resolutions

• 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/

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