GEER/NEER Post Hurricane Ida: Infrastructure Damage Reconnaissance Data

Reconnaissance following Hurricane Ida documents impacts on civil infrastructure, particularly geotechnical and coastal engineering structures. Field photos, Lidar, and UAV data capture wind damage, flooding, levee failures, and coastal erosion. This project offers a unique comparison of an upgraded flood protection system's performance against a hurricane of similar strength to 2005's Katrina.

Use Cases

• Assessing wind damage patterns to light structures based on field photos and UAV imagery.
• Analyzing levee performance and failure modes based on field reconnaissance data.
• Modeling coastal erosion and flooding extents based on Lidar and field observations.
• Comparing the resilience of upgraded flood protection systems to historical events like Hurricane Katrina, as mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Includes multi-modal data sources: field photos, Lidar, and UAVs.
• Provides a direct comparison opportunity for flood system performance against a major historical event (Hurricane Katrina).
• Focuses on documented impacts to specific civil infrastructure types: geotechnical and coastal engineering structures.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic and temporal bias focused on the Hurricane Ida impact area.

Provenance

Source

Athanasopoulos-Zekkos, Adda via DesignSafe Data Depot Repository Harvested Subcollection.

Collection Method

Field reconnaissance following Hurricane Ida.

Time Range

Post Hurricane Ida (2021).

Freshness

Last updated 2025-02-10 23:02:13; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Hurricane Ida impact area (specific location not detailed).