The NOAA Coastal Services Center, as part of their Digital Coast program, has assembled a Coastal Inundation Toolkit.
The new “Visualize” section allows users to learn how different types of visualizations can help communities understand their inundation risks and vulnerabilities. The “Picture It” page offers tools and local examples of how photos, maps, and mapping viewers can be used to visualize the extent and impacts of inundation. The “Graph It” page directs users to tools and websites that can be used to visualize trends, such as sea level rise, and spatial relationships for complex data sets.
For the more technically advanced, the “Build It” page directs users to training, data, and guidance that can get them started with creating their own visualizations. Visualizing inundation is important in understanding the potential extent of inundation and the risks it poses on the community. Being able to visualize inundation allows communities to prepare and plan for these events in the future.
We’ve added it to our Finding and Using Additional Hazard information page.