TY - JOUR
T1 - The UK needs an open data portal dedicated to coastal flood and erosion hazard risk and resilience
AU - Lazarus, Eli D.
AU - Aldabet, Sofia
AU - Thompson, Charlotte E. l.
AU - Hill, Christopher T.
AU - Nicholls, Robert J.
AU - French, Jon R.
AU - Brown, Sally
AU - Tompkins, Emma L.
AU - Haigh, Ivan D.
AU - Townend, Ian H.
AU - Penning-Rowsell, Edmund C.
N1 - Funding Information: The authors are grateful for support from the Strategic Priorities Fund UK Climate Resilience Programme through UK Research & Innovation award NE/S016651/1, and a Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute (SMMI) Doctoral Studentship to S.A.
PY - 2021/9/17
Y1 - 2021/9/17
N2 - In the UK, coastal flooding and erosion are two of the primary climate-related hazards to communities, businesses, and infrastructure. To better address the ramifications of those hazards, now and into the future, the UK needs to transform its scattered, fragmented coastal data resources into a systematic, integrated portal for quality-assured, publicly accessible open data. Such a portal would support analyses of coastal risk and resilience by hosting, in addition to data layers for coastal flooding and erosion, a diverse array of spatial datasets for building footprints, infrastructure networks, land use, population, and various socio-economic measures and indicators derived from survey and census data. The portal would facilitate novel combinations of spatial data layers to yield scientifically, societally, and economically beneficial insights into UK coastal systems.
AB - In the UK, coastal flooding and erosion are two of the primary climate-related hazards to communities, businesses, and infrastructure. To better address the ramifications of those hazards, now and into the future, the UK needs to transform its scattered, fragmented coastal data resources into a systematic, integrated portal for quality-assured, publicly accessible open data. Such a portal would support analyses of coastal risk and resilience by hosting, in addition to data layers for coastal flooding and erosion, a diverse array of spatial datasets for building footprints, infrastructure networks, land use, population, and various socio-economic measures and indicators derived from survey and census data. The portal would facilitate novel combinations of spatial data layers to yield scientifically, societally, and economically beneficial insights into UK coastal systems.
KW - Geomatics
KW - Geospatial information systems
KW - Open data
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115392871&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1139/anc-2020-0023
DO - 10.1139/anc-2020-0023
M3 - Article
VL - 4
SP - 137
EP - 146
JO - Anthropocene Coasts
JF - Anthropocene Coasts
SN - 2561-4150
IS - 1
ER -
