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Geospatial AI for disaster planning.

Blue-sky risk and resilience. Gray-sky anticipatory assessment.

Investigate exposure and community vulnerabilities between events. As a threat approaches, use supported forecasts to examine who and what may be exposed—and where a closer look could shape your planning priorities.

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Put the assessment to work.

Start with a disaster-planning question. Each workflow connects the analysis to a geographic focus, a clearer understanding of risk, or a defined next investigation.

Turn a regional forecast into a local assessment.

When: An approaching threat covers a broad area, and your team needs to understand what it could mean locally.
Use it to: Examine where supported forecast conditions overlap people, residential structures, and facilities. Narrow the geography and investigate places that meet your assessment criteria.
Example question: “Which communities in the forecast area combine potential exposure and higher vulnerability?”
Take into your workflow: Exposure estimates, mapped locations, and questions for local checks that focus anticipatory planning before impact.

Build a blue-sky risk and resilience baseline.

When: You need to understand the area's exposure and community conditions before a specific threat develops.
Use it to: Examine baseline hazard exposure, population, vulnerability, and relevant facilities. Identify where these conditions coincide and where the evidence leaves important questions unanswered.
Example question: “Where do mapped flood exposure, higher vulnerability, and critical facilities coincide?”
Take into your workflow: A geographic baseline and areas for closer investigation to guide recurring risk and resilience assessments.

Compare communities across the area you serve.

When: Your assessment spans places your team knows unevenly, and you need a consistent basis for comparison.
Use it to: Apply the same exposure and vulnerability criteria across communities. Compare findings and investigate unfamiliar locations or facility clusters.
Example question: “How do exposure, population, and critical facilities differ across these communities?”
Take into your workflow: Comparable findings and a defined set of places needing local knowledge or further analysis, helping you focus assessment effort across the service area.

Understand the community conditions behind exposure.

When: Exposure counts leave questions about susceptibility and essential services unresolved.
Use it to: Investigate community vulnerability within selected areas and examine mapped healthcare facilities or other relevant service evidence. Identify the conditions that need local verification.
Example question: “Where are there more older residents, and which mapped healthcare facilities are in those exposed areas?”
Take into your workflow: A clearer account of the community and service concerns to investigate in your risk, resilience, or anticipatory assessment.

Focus mitigation and resilience investigations.

When: An initial assessment needs to become a defined geographic focus for more detailed study.
Use it to: Identify places meeting explicit hazard-exposure and vulnerability criteria. Examine the people, facilities, and community conditions that explain why those places warrant attention.
Example question: “Which locations meet our screening criteria, and what additional evidence would clarify their resilience gaps?”
Take into your workflow: A study geography, supporting findings, and specific unanswered questions for local validation, GIS work, or specialist risk analysis.

Reassess as forecast conditions change.

When: A supported forecast is updated and your team needs to revisit the places under consideration.
Use it to: Run a new assessment for the updated forecast and stated criteria. Review which locations now meet them; compare with earlier findings where the inputs and methods support comparison.
Example question: “Using the updated forecast, which communities now meet our exposure and vulnerability criteria?”
Take into your workflow: An updated geographic focus and questions for the next anticipatory assessment, with the relevant forecast time and assumptions recorded.

From blue-sky screening to a focused resilience investigation.

Between events, your team is examining flood risk across its service area. You need to decide where a deeper resilience assessment would be most useful and what it should investigate.

Set the assessment scope.
Choose the communities, baseline flood-exposure criteria, and vulnerability indicators relevant to the planning question.
Identify places for closer review.
Compare exposure and vulnerability, then examine population, structures, and mapped facilities in the selected locations.
Define the unresolved questions.
Review relevant service evidence and data gaps. Note which conditions require local information, finer data, or specialist analysis.
Carry the findings into the next study.
Export the relevant assessment as a PDF. Use its findings and assumptions to define the geography and questions for a focused resilience investigation.

Outcome

The next study starts with a defined geographic focus, reviewable evidence, and specific questions to resolve.

These examples illustrate planning uses. Available data, geography, and time period determine each assessment's scope. Screening identifies potential exposure and areas for investigation; your team validates local conditions and determines the next step.

Follow a documented assessment.

For the underlying analyses and their scope, explore the documented examples:

Bring your next disaster-assessment question.

A community risk profile. A resilience gap to investigate. An approaching threat to assess.

Tell us the area, the question, and the planning decision the assessment needs to inform. We can work through the evidence and workflow it would require.

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