Session Abstracts:
This session will highlight datasets that have been collected through NSF support RAPID projects using the NHERI RAPID Facility’s equipment and resources. The hosts will highlight four data sets that may be of particular interest to the research community, including two that focus on wildfires that impacted the wildland urban interface (the Camp and Marshall fires). Each dataset contains a combination 3D point clouds that have been derived from images or obtained with lidar. Several also contain images captured via 3D street view type camera systems. For each data set the hosts will present background material on the projects and natural hazards involved, identify where the datasets can be obtained (DesignSafe), and discuss how the datasets may be used for future research. The session will also highlight powerful open source tools that are available for interrogating point clouds and the maps that DesignSafe has enabled to help visualize the datasets before downloading them. Attendees will come away with an understanding of how to access and use these amazing point-in-time models of communities following natural disasters to further their own research.