Here at JBA we work with clients and communities to adapt and build resilience to climate change. Geospatial data plays a crucial role in this work, including global flood hazard data through JBA’s Global Flood Maps. These maps are available worldwide, providing flood extents and depths across multiple return periods, and cover both river and surface water flooding as well as coastal flooding in some countries.
Dr Mark Lawless comments:
“Everything about a resilience project is spatial. Where people live, where the infrastructure is, where the opportunities for natural based solutions are, the hazard itself – spatial data is at the heart of it all. We still have to fill in a lot of gaps where data are sparse. But as time progresses, data becomes more easily available. We can combine on-ground observations with globally available data sets, for instance, to create a more complete virtual landscape of the situation.”
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