Projects by Topic

Expand allDisaster Resilience

• Building Resilience Against Climate Effects (BRACE)
• Contributions to the Summary of Current Knowledge about Community Resilience
• DRRC: Baseline Indicators for Monitoring Disaster Resilience in Rural Places

GIScience and Remote Sensing

• Mobile Geospatial Situational Awareness for Field and Command Staff during the Emergency Response Phase
• NASA REASoN Project
• Rapid Flood Mapping by Enhancing Near Real-Time Satellite Imagery with Real-Time Gauge and Twitter Data
• Remote Sensing Hazard Guidance System
• Remote Sensing Planning Tool 
• Tracking Airborne and Satellite Remote Sensing Collection Assets for Emergency Response Phase

Hazards Analysis Methodology

• Baseline Methods for Reconstructing U.S. 19th Century Climatic Extremes from Historical Data
• Evaluation of Airborne LIDAR-derived Floodplain Mapping

Hazards Identification and Assessment

• Central Midlands Council of Governments Hazard Mitigation Plan
• Geospatial Risk Assessment Support Protocols (GRASP)
• Historic Inequities in Disaster Losses: Identifying Disaster-Prone Places
• Historical Climate Data Catalogue
• Historical Climatic Reconstructions of the Southeastern United States
• Incorporating Medical and Social Vulnerability into an All-Hazards Assessment for the State of Florida
• National Center for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START)
• National Digital Clearinghouse for Hazard Event and Loss Data
• SCEMD Mitigation Plan Risk Assessment Update 2018
• South Carolina Atlas of Environmental Risks and Hazards
• Web-based Risk Assessment Planning Project for the State of Florida

Hurricane Research

• 2011 South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Study
• Hurricane Matthew Evacuation Research
• Identifying and Analyzing the Driving Forces of Hurricane Recovery for Disaster Stricken Areas to Improve Long-term Planning
• South Carolina Hurricane Evacuation Study: Behavioral Analysis
• The Recovery Divide: Sociospatial Disparities in Disaster Recovery from Hurricane Katrina along Mississippi’s Gulf Coast

Natural Hazard Losses and Damages

• Improving Drought Loss Accounting in SHELDUS®
• Multi-scale Spatiotemporal Evaluation of Mitigation Effectiveness in Reducing Natural Hazard Damage and Loss

Policy and Practice

• Decision-making and Long-Lead Climate Forecasts
• South Carolina Flood Losses
• Spatial Data Needs and the Use of GIS and Remote Sensing in State-Level Hazard-Related Offices

Post-Event/Quick Response

• Chlorine Spill
• Hurricane Impacts in Mississippi and Alabama
• Hurricane Katrina Crisis Research at USC
• Improving Tornado Warning Effectiveness and the Fujita Scale Assessment Process
• Use of Spatial Data and Geographic Technologies in Response to the September 11 Terrorist Attack

Social Vulnerability

• Collaborative Research: Measuring Social Vulnerability — Reducing Uncertainty and Validating Indicators
• Enhancing Social Vulnerability Mapping
• Social and Place Vulnerability Methods and Application for Corps Planning
• Social and Place Vulnerability Methods and Application for Corps Planning II: Technical Analysis
• Social Vulnerability Index 2020-2014
• Social Vulnerability Mapping for the Southeast U.S. (OxFam)

South Carolina Floods 2015

• Cascading Spatial Impact of Rainfall Extremes on Residents
• Indirect Costs of School Closures Triggered by the 2015 Flash Floods
• Leveraging Perishable Impact Data into Long Term Recovery Forecasting
• Mapping River Erosion and Geomorphic Change Caused by an Extreme Flood
• Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Flood Impact by Integrating Satellite, VGI, and Social Media Data: Rapid Assessment of the October Flood
• [USC ] Other Campus Projects Related to SC Floods

Vulnerability Assessments

• Comparative Indicators of Hazards Vulnerability in Urban Areas
• Place-Based Decision Support for Spatial and Temporal Transference of Risk and Hazards
• Population Vulnerability Analysis, Spatial Social Science and GIS    
• Richland County Vulnerability Assessment
• Shifting Terrorism Trends across Time and Space