Risk assessment indicators for Saudi Arabia aggregated at the second administrative level (ADM2). The dataset includes eight thematic layers covering demographics, access to services, facilities, coping capacity, and exposure to flood and cyclone hazards. It was produced by HeiGIT using open data sources like WorldPop and OpenStreetMap and was last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Conducting structured risk assessments for flood hazards based on flood exposure indicators.
- Conducting structured risk assessments for cyclone hazards based on cyclone exposure indicators.
- Analyzing population vulnerability based on demographic composition data.
- Evaluating a district's coping capacity by combining access to services and facility count data.
- Mapping accessibility to critical infrastructure like hospitals and schools using travel time metrics.
Strengths
- Includes eight distinct thematic layers for multi-faceted risk analysis.
- Aggregated at the second administrative level (ADM2) for granular spatial analysis.
- Derived from authoritative open sources like WorldPop, OpenStreetMap, and Google Earth Engine.
- Released under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license, permitting sharing and adaptation.
Limitations
- Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation for some layers is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last updated 2026-04-13 16:30:15.220677; freshness should be verified.
Provenance
- Source
- HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology)
- Collection Method
- Derived from HeiGIT's GAIA Pipeline, integrating multiple open data sources.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-13 16:30:15.220677.
- Geography
- Saudi Arabia