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1. Mesoamerican Visualization and Monitoring System (SERVIR) [SERVIR]   CHILD SERFs
SERVIR is a Regional Monitoring and Visualization System for Mesoamerica that intensively utilizes satellite imagery and other data sources for environmental management and disaster support. SERVIR ...

2. FEMA for Kids [FEMA-Kids]
This site teaches you how to be prepared for disasters and how you can prevent disaster damage. You can also learn what causes disasters, play games, read stories and become a Disaster Action Kid.

3. RASPLOT - Flood Profile Tool [FEAM_RASPLOT]
RASPLOT Version 2.5 replaces FEMA's FISPLOT program, which is currently used to develop flood profiles. This program can be installed only on computers with Windows 98/NT/2000/XP operating systems. ...

4. FEMA Coastal Hazard Analysis Modeling Program (CHAMP) [FEMA_CHAMP]
Since the 1970s, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has routinely established and updated standard methodologies for performing coastal hazard assessments of fine-scale wave phenomena ...

5. HAZUS99, the Earthquake Loss Estimation Program [01-HAZUS-99]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has released the new HAZUS99, the natural hazard loss estimation methodology software program. HAZUS99 is used for earthquake-related mitigation, emergency ...

6. The Hydrological Routing Algorithm (HYDRA) [NASA_CASA_HYDRA]
The Hydrological Routing Algorithm (HYDRA) is a computer model that simulates the regional scale flow of water (Coe et al., 2000). HYDRA simulates a set of physical hydrologic ...

7. USGS Water Services [USGS_waterservices]
The USGS Water Services site serves USGS water data via automated means using web services and extensible markup language (XML) as well as other popular media types. Services can be invoked with the ...

8. Earth Science World: ImageBank [ESW-Imagebank]
The Earth Science World ImageBank is a service provided by the American Geological Institute (AGI). This ImageBank is designed to provide quality geoscience images to the public, educators, and the ...

9. FEMA Multi-Hazard Mapping Initiative (MMI) - HazardMaps [FEMA-HazardMaps]
FEMA's Mutihazard Mapping Initiative (MMI) is to maintain a living atlas of hazards data and map services for advisory purposes supplied from a network of hazard and base map providers. The initiative ...

10. Project for Risk Evaluation, Vulnerability, Information and Early Warning Online Visualization Tool [PREVIEW_IMS]
The Project for Risk Evaluation, Vulnerability Indexing and Early Warning ( PREVIEW-IMS) tool allows users to visualize earthquakes, fires, floods, cyclones and tsunamis, in relation with other layers ...

11. Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences [SERC-TQS]
Teaching Quantitative Skills in the Geosciences Quantitative skills are an essential tool for both the geoscientist and the citizen. Helping students master skills ranging from ...

12. Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal [INSTITUTE_REDLANDS_SDS]
The SDS Knowledge Portal is developed to help people involved in a spatial decision process (decision makers, practitioners, researchers) gain a holistic view of the spatial decision process and better ...

13. UN-SPIDER Knowledge Portal [UN_SPIDER_PORTAL]
The United Nations Platform for Space-based information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER) aims at providing universal access to all types of space-based information and services ...

14. Worldwide Water Education [PROJECT_WET]
Since 1984, Project WET, an award-winning 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, has dedicated itself to the mission of reaching children, parents, teachers and community members of the world with water ...

15. EarthObserver [earthobserver]
Explore your planet as never before with the mobility of EarthObserver. Use your fingertips to travel through terrestrial landscapes and across the ocean floor. Visit frozen icecaps, study geological ...

16. Exploring Earth Hazards [USGS_Earth_Hazards]   PARENT SERF
Understanding the mechanisms of natural events, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and floods, is important for the United States and the world at large. Natural disasters ...

17. Maryland safeMAP [mdsafemap]
Maryland safeMAP is a Web mapping application that provides useful and freely available geographic data to the public in the event of an emergency. safeMAP was developed by the Geospatial Research ...

18. MetEd (Meteorology Education and Training) [MetEd]   CHILD SERFs
The MetEd (Meteorology Education and Training) Website was established to provide education and training resources to benefit the operational forecaster community, university atmospheric scientists ...

19. NOAA's Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Tool (RVAT) [NOAA_RVAT]
NOAA's Risk and Vulnerability Assessment Tool (RVAT) is an interactive online tool that helps identify people, property, and resources that are at risk of injury, damage, or loss from hazardous incidents ...

20. Natural Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas [PDC_NHVA]
The Pacific Disaster Center's (PDC) Asia Pacific Natural Hazards and Vulnerabilities Atlas is an interactive, geospatial mapping tool and database for natural hazards and vulnerabilities ...

21. Pacific Disaster Center's World Disaster Alerts [PDC_APP_DIS_ALERT]
The Disaster Alert (by Pacific Disaster Center) provides a listing and an interactive map of Active Hazards occurring around the globe. Additional hazard information can be viewed and shared. The ...

22. American Red Cross: Disaster Services [red_cross-disasters]   CHILD SERFs
American Red Cross responds immediately to more than 67,000 disasters, including house or apartment fires (the majority of disaster responses), hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, hazardous ...

23. Be Prepared - Project Impact; Teton County, Wyoming [WYOMING_IMPACT]
The Teton County, Wyoming Project Impact combines the resources of individuals, schools, churches and local businesses into a community-wide program that helps prepare for, and protect against, natural ...

24. CDC Emergency Preparedness & Response [CDC-Preparedness]
This site provides information on emergency preparedness and response for a variety of agents, diseases, and other threats. This consists of: - Bioterrorism Agents - Chemical Emergencies - Radiation ...

25. Emergency Operations Portal [USGS_EROS_EO]
The USGS EROS Emergency Operations Portal allows users to explore critical pre- and post-disaster images and datasets online for immediate viewing and downloading. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ...

26. Hazard and Disasters Data Selection Tool [NASA_EOSDIS_HAZARDS_DISASTERS]   PARENT SERF
Approximately 40 LANCE products from the MODIS, AIRS, and OMI instruments have been selected to support users in the monitoring and analysis of a variety of man-made and natural hazards and disasters. ...

27. Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS) [NASA_ARC_TOPS]
The Terrestrial Observation and Prediction System (TOPS) modeling software system that brings together technologies in information technology, weather/climate forecasting, ecosystem modeling, and ...

28. World Mapper: A Collection of World Thematic Maps [WORLDMAPPER]
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps in which territories are re- sized according to different subjects, illustrating individual territories' share of the world's population, wealth, emissions, ...

29. Luca - Let Us Calibrate [USGS_LUCA]
Luca (Let us calibrate) is a multiple-objective, stepwise, automated procedure for hydrologic model calibration and the associated graphical user interface (GUI). Luca is a wizard-style user-friendly ...

30. Virtual River: Discharge and Flooding - Geology Labs On-line [Virtual_River-02]   PARENT SERF
(Adapted from the Virtual River webpage) Virtual River consists of two activities (Discharge and Flooding) that help students understand some of the important process of rivers such as discharge ...

31. The USGS National Map Viewer [USGS_National_Map]   CHILD SERFs
The National Map viewer is the USGS's geographic information system (GIS) application which is designed to provide easy access to geospatial information. The viewer is a Web-enabled portal to all ...

32. Florida Geographic Data Library [FGDL_Map]
The Florida Geographic Data Library (FGDL) is a mechanism for distributing spatial (GIS) data throughout the state of Florida. The FGDL is warehoused and maintained at the University of Florida's ...

33. Downsizer—A Graphical User Interface-Based Application for Browsing, Acquiring, and Formatting Time-Series Data for Hydrologic Modeling [USGS_Downsizer]
The U.S. Geological Survey Downsizer is a computer application that selects, downloads, verifies, and formats station-based time-series data for environmental-resource models, particularly the Precipitation-Runoff ...

34. ModelMate - A Graphical User Interface (GUI) for Model Analysis [USGS_ModelMate]
ModelMate is a graphical user interface designed to facilitate use of model-analysis programs with models. This initial version of ModelMate supports one model-analysis program, UCODE_2005, and one ...

35. Drought Monitoring Geographic Information System [USGS_VegDRI]
Satellite data provide synoptic, near-real time measurements of surface conditions. Previous studies have established significant relationships between climate variables and satellite-derived vegetation ...

36. Texas Hazard Mitigation Package [THMP]
The Texas Hazard Mitigation Package (THMP) is an online digital geographic data resource for hazard analysis in Texas. When a specific hazard has been determined a potential threat, the user may ...

37. A computer model for Water-Surface Profile computations [USGS_WSPRO]
A computer model for Water-Surface Profile computations (WSPRO) computes water-surface profiles for subcritical, critical, or supercritical flow as long as the flow can be reasonably classified as ...

38. Bridge Scour Data Management System (BSDMS) [USGS_BSDMS]
The Bridge Scour Data Management System (BSDMS) has been developed to support preparation, compilation, and analysis of bridge-scour measurement data. Users may interactively store, retrieve, update, ...

39. Distributed Routing Rainfall-Runoff Model [USGS_DR3M]
The Distributed Routing Rainfall-Runoff Model (DR3M) is a watershed model for routing storm runoff through a Branched system of pipes and (or) natural channels using rainfall as input. DR3M provides ...

40. Finite-element surface-water modeling system for two-dimensional flow in the horizontal plane [USGS_FESWMS]
Finite-element surface-water modeling system for two-dimensional flow in the horizontal plane (FESWMS-2DH) is a modular set of computer programs that simulates two- dimensional, depth-integrated, ...

41. Flood Frequency Analysis Based on Bulletin 17B [USGS_PeakFQ]
Program PeakFQ provides estimates of instantaneous annual-maximum peak flows for a range of recurrence intervals, including 1.5, 2, 2.33, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 200, and 500 years (annual-Exceedance ...

42. Hydrological Simulation Program--Fortran [USGS_HSPF]
The Hydrological Simulation Program--Fortran (HSPF) simulates for extended periods of time the hydrologic, and associated water quality, processes on pervious and impervious land surfaces and in streams ...

43. NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer [NOAA_Shoreline_GIS]
The NOAA Shoreline Data Explorer provides high-resolution digital shoreline from multi-temporal surveys of our nation's coastline. It provides the following capabilities: -View available shoreline ...

44. One-Dimensional Transport With Inflow and Storage (OTIS): A Solute Transport Model For Streams and Rivers [USGS_OTIS]
One-Dimensional Transport With Inflow and Storage (OTIS) is a mathematical simulation model used to characterize the fate and transport of water-borne solutes in streams and rivers. The governing ...

45. StreamStats [USGS_STREAMSTATS]
StreamStats is an integrated Geographic Information System (GIS) application that uses ArcIMS, ArcSDE, ArcGIS, and the ArcHydro Tools to make the process of computing streamflow statistics much faster, ...

46. Surface-water statistics [USGS_SWSTAT]
Surface-water statistics (SWSTAT) contains a number of options for statistically analyzing time-series data. The time-series data are read from a Watershed Data Management (WDM) file. ...

47. CHRR's Natural Disaster Profiles for Indian Ocean Countries [CHRR-Natural_Disaster_Profiles]
Natural Disaster Profiles for Indian Ocean Countries Profiles for the 13 countries listed below provide information on sub-national areas at risk from natural hazards including cyclones, droughts, ...

48. JGrass - A Free Open Source GIS Dedicated To Hydro Geomorphology [JGrass]
JGrass is a free, multi platform, open source GIS based on the famous GIS Grass, developed in Java by CUDAM, Hydrologis and ICENS. Currently JGrass is dedicated mostly to hydrological and geomophological ...

49. Project Impact: Online Hazard Mapping Tool [01-Hazmap-Tools-00]
Through the Project Impact initiative, FEMA and ESRI have formed a National Partnership in part aimed at providing multi-hazard maps and information to U.S. residents, business owners, schools, community ...

50. NASA's Earth Observatory - Natural Hazards [Earth_Obsrv-Nat_Haz-02]   PARENT SERF
(Summary adapted from Natural Hazards web page) Earth scientists around the world use NASA satellite imagery to better understand the causes and effects of natural hazards. The goal in sharing these ...

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