New Interactive Map For Understanding Global Flood Risks

Posted by timothy on Sunday February 23, 2014 @08:40PM from the seek-out-higher-ground dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Using computations on the massive near-global SRTM surface model from NASA, this map lets you query watersheds, interactively set the sea-level and flood the world (North America at 500m increase in sea-level), or play around with river thresholds on a global or regional scale (computed rivers around NYC/NJ). It can be used to get an understanding of the watersheds and water flow paths in your local neighborhood; do you know where rain (or pollutants) that falls in your backyard end up? The map is freely available to the public."

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Re:If you're going to go to all that trouble... by SeeSchloss · 2014-02-23 21:04 · Score: 3, Informative

The sea-floor elevation maps are vastly less precise (because you can't just use a radar from satellite to measure sea-floor).
Re:There is an interactive sea-level map from NASA by rickyslashdot · 2014-02-23 22:05 · Score: 4, Informative

http://climate.nasa.gov/intera... found here http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multim... along with other goodies or you could spend time going thru http://nasasearch.nasa.gov/sea...

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