Small university project case study of La Réunion

Hello/Kia ora/Bonjour,

Just thought I’d add a quick appreciation post of RiskScape!

A friend and I used RiskScape as part of a paper on natural catastrophe modelling for our Masters in Environmental Policy (Sciences Po, Paris). It was used for a very basic analysis of multi-hazards on the French island of La Réunion using data available from OpenStreetMap and the local government’s geospatial portal (flooding and land movements).

The documentation for RiskScape was well-written, and the getting started tutorial was particularly helpful. Awesome to see a project such as this available under an open source licence! The wizard was also well-structured.

For interest, here’s a small map of our results for a section of Saint Denis (the capital):


(Basemap: Mapbox/OpenStreetMap, Data: PEIGEO)

(Each dot represents a building, coloured according to a simple classification scale, based on a matrix of the two risks. Pre/post processing was done in QGIS.)

Look forward to seeing RiskScape going from strength to strength!

Cheers, George

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Thanks for posting George! This is excellent work and great to hear that you found the documentation helpful.

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