From spatial evidence to response
A multi-technology response workflow: validate a raster, measure hazard context, screen global event data, query nearby facilities and design a database that keeps condition checks traceable.
Spatial Analysis
What you will be able to do
Build an auditable response briefing from heterogeneous GIS evidence: reject unsuitable inputs, produce a map of what the data actually measures, retrieve candidate facilities with indexed spatial SQL, retain condition history in PostGIS and explain which access decisions still need direct verification.
The sequence
Each step assumes the one before it.
- Up nextAccept the rasters, or send them backUp nextThe checks a data manager runs on delivered rasters before anyone analyses them: extent, nodata, value range, and whether the figures are plausible for the place.intermediateDifficulty: intermediate200 XP~35 minintermediateDifficulty: intermediate
- 2How much of each borough lies below ten metres?Threshold a DEM, count inside polygons, and turn pixels into square kilometres on a geographic grid — a flood-screening figure per borough.intermediateDifficulty: intermediate240 XP~40 minintermediateDifficulty: intermediate
- 3Build the global seismic reconnaissance watchlistTurn a fixed USGS event feed into a mapped, reproducible shallow strong-event watchlist for requesting impact products.intermediateDifficulty: intermediate240 XP~40 minintermediateDifficulty: intermediate
- 4Which airfields should the response desk check?Use a metre-based spatial join to identify civil airfields near strong, shallow earthquake epicentres, with the facilities drawn on the map.intermediateDifficulty: intermediate260 XP~45 minintermediateDifficulty: intermediate
- 5Model event and airfield condition checksDesign a PostGIS schema that keeps earthquake events, airfields and repeated condition checks traceable.advancedDifficulty: advanced520 XP~85 minadvancedDifficulty: advanced
- 6Build an earthquake contact reconnaissance queueProjectScreen strong shallow events, quantify airfield and settlement proximity, and hand over a traceable contact map.advancedDifficulty: advanced550 XP~95 minadvancedDifficulty: advanced
- 7Screen capital access exceptionsUse airport and port proximity to flag capitals that need direct logistics verification.advancedDifficulty: advanced580 XP~100 minadvancedDifficulty: advanced
Where it leads
Spatial Analysis is examined in the Open-Data Analyst — Associate, which issues the Kharita Certified Open-Data Analyst (Associate) (KODA-A1). The problems here are the practice; the assessment is the same kind of problem, under time.