HeiGIT's Greenland Risk Assessment Indicators dataset provides demographic, environmental, infrastructure, accessibility, and hazard-related data aggregated at admin level 2. It integrates open data from WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine via the GAIA Pipeline. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-27.
Use Cases
- Perform structured flood risk assessments based on flood exposure indicators.
- Analyze population vulnerability based on demographic composition and rural population data.
- Evaluate district coping capacity based on access to services and facility counts.
- Model accessibility to healthcare and education facilities using travel time and distance metrics.
Strengths
- Includes seven distinct indicator layers covering access, facilities, coping capacity, demographics, rural population, vulnerability, and flood exposure.
- Derived from established open data sources like WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine.
- Aggregated at admin level 2, providing a structured geographic unit for analysis.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent for some layers; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)
- Collection Method
- Derived from HeiGIT's GAIA Pipeline, integrating WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine data.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-27 10:56:10.844461; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Greenland