Communicating Coastal Risk to Local Communities — YRD

Communicating Coastal Risk to Local Communities (3049)

Nathan Quadros 1
  1. CRC for Spatial Information, Carlton, VIC, Australia

The Cooperative Research Centre for Spatial Information (CRCSI) has been working with a number of partners in Australia and the Pacific to better communicate the impact of sea level rise to coastal communities. Local communities have demonstrated a need for customised maps and web tools to better understand the impacts of sea level rise for their climate change planning and management. With partners, the CRCSI has developed easy-to-use web tools to enable communities to interact with different sea level rise scenarios.These Dashboards use industry leading big data analysis to dynamically generate inundation models based on both predicted and user generated sea level rise scenarios. Analytics for building, land and road infrastructure can then be dynamically generated without the need for intensive manual effort or analysis. The combination of intuitive, easy-to-use visualisations with dynamic analytics, driven by the use of a cloud platform provides capabilities that have not previously been available for climate change projects. These web tools provide a scalable, repeatable solution that can deliver the same climate change outcomes at scale for a fraction of the cost and effort associated with more traditional approaches. The ability to dynamically generate localised exposure statistics for varying sea level scenarios has changed the communication of coastal resilience projects.