Webinar: Using Geospatial Data to Evaluate Climate Hazards and Inform Environmental Justice

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This webinar will introduce two new datasets released by NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC): Global High Resolution Daily Extreme Urban Heat Exposure (UHE-Daily), v1 (1983-2016) and U.S. Social Vulnerability Index Grids, v1 (2000, 2010, 2014, 2016, and 2018). The UHE-Daily dataset is a global inventory of extreme heat events covering more than 13,000 urban settlements from 1983 - 2016 across five different extreme heat thresholds. It includes the number of people exposed to each heat event, as well as 34-year exposure trends. The U.S. Social Vulnerability Index Grids dataset contains gridded layers for the CDC Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) for the overall score from 15 variables and four sub-category themes (Socioeconomic, Household Composition and Disability, Minority Status and Language, and Housing Type and Transportation) based on Census tract-level inputs. The webinar will introduce the datasets and provide brief data discovery and data access tutorials in Python and QGIS.

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