This website was developed as part of a diploma thesis at the Czech Technical University in Prague in the Geomatics Department. Afterward, it went through an optimization process during an internship at ARCDATA company, the Czech distributor of ESRI software. The resulting interactive map application presents a new way how to browse natural disasters.
On the hexagons tab, the EM-DAT data is clustered into thematic hexagon bins showing disaster density, prevalent subgroups, and total population affected by disasters. A modal window can be opened to explore the further economic and human consequences. The grid is replotted with dynamic zoom until the points are distinguishable from each other.
By clicking on a button called donate, hexagons with existent charitable projects from global crowdfunding platform GlobalGiving: higlight. More information about the humanitarian project emerge in a pop-up. It includes picture, graph of the current funding situation, summary of the project and link to donation possibilities.
The most recent Disaster alerts from Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDASC) initiative can be viewed after pressing Alerts button in the header. Visually they are classified by their emergency level. In pop-up, link to the alert website is provided.
The points tab serves the purpose of time and attribute filtration of EM-DAT natural disasters. Disasters can be explored as a point layer or clusters visualised as piecharts.
All data is continuously updated.
University: Czech Technical University in Prague
Department: Geomatics
Student: Marek Hoffmann
Supervisor: prof. Ing. Jiří Cajthaml, Ph.D
Year: 2022