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From discovery to visualization, data tools such as the SEDAC Hazards Mapper and NASA's Flooding Days Projection Tool guide users in making the most of natural hazards data.

Natural Hazards Datasets

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ABoVE: Active Layer Soil Characteristics at Selected Sites Across Alaska 1 FIELD SURVEYS CORING DEVICES 2016-08-09 to 2018-07-07

N: 68.5596 S: 63.8801 E: -146.558 W: -149.533

multiple
ABoVE: AVHRR-Derived Forest Fire Burned Area-Hot Spots, Alaska and Canada, 1989-2000 1 NOAA-11, NOAA-14, MODELS AVHRR, Computer 1989-05-01 to 2000-10-31

N: 69.007 S: 41.7216 E: -53.1678 W: -165.186

Shapefile
ABoVE: Boreal Forest Resilience Study 2020-2022, Fairbanks AK 1 FIELD SURVEYS SURVEYING TOOLS 2017-01-01 to 2022-12-31

N: 65 S: 64.4 E: -146.1 W: -148.9

CSV
ABoVE: Burn Severity of Soil Organic Matter, Northwest Territories, Canada, 2014-2015 1 LANDSAT-8, FIELD SURVEYS, MODELS OLI, TIRS, GPS, Computer 2014-05-01 to 2015-10-01

N: 65.5514 S: 58.2864 E: -108.834 W: -124.03

multiple
ABoVE: Burned Area, Depth, and Combustion for Alaska and Canada, 2001-2019 1 Terra, LANDSAT, Aqua MODIS, OLI, TIRS 2001-01-01 to 2019-12-31

N: 72.9491 S: 42.885 E: -48.7792 W: -167.959

COG
ABoVE: Characterization of Burned and Unburned Boreal Forest Stands, SK, Canada, 2016 1 FIELD SURVEYS, MODELS STEEL MEASURING TAPE, SOIL SAMPLER, CLINOMETERS, GPS, Computer 2016-05-30 to 2016-06-16

N: 57.3646 S: 54.091 E: -104.693 W: -109.173

CSV
ABoVE: Characterization of Burned and Unburned Spruce Forest Sites, Tanana, AK, 2017 1 FIELD SURVEYS, LANDSAT PROBES, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, TM 2017-07-26 to 2017-07-28

N: 65.2315 S: 65.0968 E: -151.951 W: -152.416

CSV
ABoVE: Characterization of Carbon Dynamics in Burned Forest Plots, NWT, Canada, 2014 1 FIELD SURVEYS, MODELS, LABORATORY CLINOMETERS, Computer, MASS SPECTROMETERS 2015-06-14 to 2015-06-14

N: 71.6947 S: 56.2542 E: -102 W: -136.119

CSV
ABoVE: Cumulative Annual Burned Area, Circumpolar High Northern Latitudes, 2001-2015 1 Terra, COMPUTERS MODIS, Computer 2001-01-01 to 2015-12-31

N: 72.5917 S: 60 E: 179.154 W: -179.814

Shapefile
ABoVE: Ignitions, burned area and emissions of fires in AK, YT, and NWT, 2001-2015 1 COMPUTERS, Terra, Aqua Computer, MODIS 2001-01-01 to 2015-12-31

N: 75.7456 S: 59.9918 E: -99.9997 W: -176.932

multiple
ABoVE: Ignitions of ABoVE-FED Fires in Alaska and Canada 1 COMPUTERS Computer 2001-01-01 to 2019-12-31

N: 73.0144 S: 44.9058 E: -52.8945 W: -166.189

multiple
ABoVE: Landsat-derived Burn Scar dNBR across Alaska and Canada, 1985-2015 1 LANDSAT-8, LANDSAT-5, LANDSAT-7 OLI, TM, ETM+ 1985-01-01 to 2015-12-31

N: 71.3558 S: 50.2542 E: -101.736 W: -168.424

multiple
ABoVE: Peak Greenness for Canadian Boreal Forest from Landsat 5 TM Imagery, 1984-2011 1 LANDSAT-5 TM 1970-01-01 to 2014-12-31

N: 63.4406 S: 45.3217 E: -53.9102 W: -124.474

multiple
ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Field Site Data, Anaktuvuk River Fire Area, 2008-2017 1 FIELD SURVEYS SOIL DEPTH PROBE, VISUAL OBSERVATIONS 2008-07-03 to 2017-07-23

N: 69.359 S: 69.0189 E: -150.034 W: -151.176

CSV
ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2017 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, SOIL MOISTURE PROBE 2015-07-13 to 2017-08-10

N: 62.5827 S: 60.5236 E: -111.367 W: -117.379

multiple
ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2018 1 FIELD SURVEYS SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, STEEL MEASURING TAPE 2018-08-12 to 2018-08-22

N: 62.5658 S: 60.4524 E: -113.42 W: -117.425

CSV
ABoVE: Post-Fire and Unburned Vegetation Community and Field Data, NWT, Canada, 2019 1 FIELD INVESTIGATION SOIL MOISTURE PROBE, SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE, SOIL DEPTH PROBE 2018-08-16 to 2019-09-05

N: 62.5658 S: 60.9206 E: -113.016 W: -117.425

CSV
ABoVE: Spatial Estimates of Carbon Combustion from Wildfires across SK, Canada, 2015 1 MODELS Computer 2015-04-06 to 2015-08-11

N: 61.2389 S: 51.1943 E: -100.168 W: -116.055

GeoTIFF
ABoVE: Synthesis of Burned and Unburned Forest Site Data, AK and Canada, 1983-2016 1 MODELS, FIELD INVESTIGATION Computer, PROBES, SOIL SAMPLER 1983-01-01 to 2016-08-08

N: 67.2297 S: 53.1911 E: -88.612 W: -150.902

CSV
ABoVE: Synthesis of Post-Fire Regeneration Across Boreal North America 1.1 FIELD SURVEYS VISUAL OBSERVATIONS, Computer 1989-01-01 to 2018-12-31

N: 66.9617 S: 49.1156 E: -71.0133 W: -152.2

CSV
ABoVE: Wildfire Date of Burning within Fire Scars across Alaska and Canada, 2001-2019 1.1 COMPUTERS, SATELLITES Computer, MODIS 2001-01-01 to 2019-12-31

N: 70.1592 S: 41.7456 E: -53.8267 W: -178.841

Shapefile
An integrated Wildfire Event Dataset (iWED), Version 1, Continental U.S., 1992-2021 1 COMPUTERS Computer 1992-01-01 to 2021-12-31

N: 71.1503 S: 25 E: -67.6 W: -178.821

CSV
Annual Burned Area from Landsat, Mawas, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, 1997-2015 1 LANDSAT ETM+, TM, OLI 1997-01-01 to 2015-12-31

N: -2.21458 S: -2.50241 E: 114.609 W: 114.39

Shapefile
Annual Global High-Resolution Extreme Heat Estimates (GEHE), 1983-2016 1.00 MODELS Computer 1983-01-01 to 2016-12-31

N: 90 S: -90 E: 180 W: -180

GeoTIFF
Annual Summary of Artificial Light At Night from VIIRS/S-NPP at CONUS County and Census Tract V1 (ALAN_VIIRS_CONUS) 1 Suomi-NPP VIIRS 2012-01-01 to 2020-12-31

N: 49.99792 S: 20.00208 E: -60.00208 W: -129.9979

Natural Hazards Data Tools

Tool Sort descending Description Services
AppEEARS The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes. Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Customization, Downloading, Visualization
EONET Use NASA Earth Observatory's Natural Event Tracker to look for natural events as they occur all across the planet. Access, Data Curation, Monitoring Natural Events
FIRMS The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) provides access to satellite imagery, active fire/hotspots, and related products to identify the location, extent, and intensity of wildfire activity. Access, Visualization
FLOOD The FLOOD viewer facilitates the use and evaluation of LANCE flood products by allowing the user to browse globally and over time, and to compare to other flood products. Monitoring Natural Events, Search and Discovery, Visualization
Giovanni Giovanni is a web application for accessing, visualizing, and analyzing Earth science remote sensing data without downloading the data. Search and Discovery, Analysis, Access, Visualization, Downloading, Subsetting
GUARDIAN The GNSS-based Upper Atmospheric Realtime Disaster Information and Alert Network (GUARDIAN) is a near real-time (NRT) ionospheric monitoring tool for natural hazards warning. Monitoring Natural Events
Hurricane Intensity Estimator NASA's Hurricane Intensity Estimator is an online platform that demonstrates the use of a machine learning model for estimating the wind speed of hurricanes. Visualization, Monitoring Natural Events
NYS FIDSS Mapper The New York State Flood Information Decision Support System Mapper is an easy-to-use mapping tool visualizes building footprint data for nearly all New York State’s infrastructure, except New York City. Visualization
OpenAltimetry OpenAltimetry is a map-based visualization tool for exploring surface elevation data across Earth over time. Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization
Panoply Panoply is a cross-platform application that plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets. Visualization, Customization, Reformatting, Subsetting, Comparison
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