Author: CIMA Research Foundation
Year of publication: 2016
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Details: Multi-hazard risk analysis
Format of assessment: Web tool
Estimated costs for conducting: Open source
Estimated duration of assessment: Few days
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Government representatives (local authorities) and private individuals.
Institutional scale of use: Continental
Details: Community/local and regional
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: Local and regional decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Science
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Details: Tool allows assessment of past, current and future impacts on systems of interest which can be of any sector but have to be materialised via spatial information
Method used: Scenario mapping
Description of methodology: RASOR provides up-to-date hazard information across floods and geohazards, up-to-date exposure data from known sources and newly generated EO-based data, and characterised quantitatively their vulnerabilities. RASOR also adapts the newly developed 12m resolution Global TanDEM-X Digital Elevation Model (DEM) to risk management applications, using it as a base layer to develop specific disaster scenarios. RASOR overlays archived and near real-time very high resolution optical and radar satellite data, combined with in situ data for both global and local applications. A scenario-driven query system allows users to project situations into the future and model multi-hazard risk both before and during an event
Risk framework used: Broad risk mapping according to different definition
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Cyclone (including tropical storm, hurricane and typhoon), Flood, Storm
Details: Multiple sources including satellite data
Participatory elements: Yes
Details: Users can define own scenarios
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Details: Cascading risk analysis
Adressing uncertainty: No
Details: No information
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks
Details: Assessment of risks, impacts and adaptation scenarios
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Both
Details: Physical damage, human losses, economic losses, losses of social cohesion, losses of biodiversity, losses of functionality
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Partly
Details: Adaptation scenarios can be modeled
Applied by whom: CIMA Research Foundation
Open access: Yes