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New Orleans Water Depth Post Hurricane Katrina
Investigator
Daniel P. Aldrich, FAS Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
Affiliation
Other - FAS
This project calculated average water depth by zip code zone for New Orleans right after Katrina.
Input data set was a table of LiDAR points with geographic coordinates and water depths. The technical challenge was the number of points to process - more than 26 million points for 37 zip code zones in 535 square miles.
The normal spatial statistics method would fail due to prolonged computing time. The work-around was to break the points by zones and calculate statistics per zone.
2006
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