Open Data Site Established for Hurricane Harvey

Caitlin Dempsey

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An open data site has been set up to house data from authoritative sources relating to Hurricane Harvey.  The site was launched by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a central point of reliable data that can be used by local, state, Federal, tribal, private sector, and community partners.

GIS data, imagery, and other data sets are organized by category including: Emergency Services, Hazard & Incident Data, Community Resources, Imagery, and Base & Population Data.  Data is available for download in CSV, KML, and Shapefile formats.

Visit: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD) for Harvey

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Caitlin Dempsey

Caitlin Dempsey is a geographer, writer, and founder and editor of Geography Realm. She holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Geography from UCLA and a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS) from San José State University.

For more than two decades, she has written about geography, maps, geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, satellite imagery, and environmental science. Her work focuses on making geography accessible to a broad audience through articles, tutorials, and educational resources.

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