Abstract

Developing Spatial Applications to Understand Potential Impacts of Natural Catastrophes
Track: Business and Commercial
Authors: Benjamin Spaulding

To understand the potential impacts a natural catastrophe can have on the built environment, across widespread geographic regions, AIR Worldwide incorporates millions of known building locations and their attributes in the development of their natural catastrophe models. These datasets, which come to AIR from its clients, represent millions of locations around the world. This data needs to be validated and analyzed before it can be incorporated into the natural catastrophe model validation process.
This presentation will discuss the formal methodology AIR Worldwide has developed and implemented to spatially validate and analyze these large and complex datasets. The authors will present the set of analysis tools and methodologies that have been developed that integrate ArcGIS Desktop, ArcGIS Server, ArcSDE and Microsoft SQL Server. The authors will focus on the technical methods to handle, analyze and validate large insurance based datasets to understand the potential impacts of natural catastrophes.