Unique Identifier: Categorised Hazard Population Impact Function
Author: AIFDR
Rating: 2
Title: Be impacted
Synopsis: To assess the impacts of categorized hazards in raster format on population raster layer.
Actions: Provide details about how many people would likely need to be impacted for each category.
Hazard Input: A hazard raster layer where each cell represents the category of the hazard. There should be 3 categories: 1, 2, and 3.
Exposure Input: An exposure raster layer where each cell represent population count.
Output: Map of population exposed to high category and a table with number of people in each category
Limitation: The number of categories is three.
This function will calculate how many people will be impacted per each category for all categories in the hazard layer. Currently there should be 3 categories in the hazard layer. After that it will show the result and the total amount of people that will be impacted for the hazard given.
Plugin for impact of population as derived by categorised hazard
:author AIFDR :rating 2 :param requires category==’hazard’ and unit==’normalised’ and layertype==’raster’
:param requires category==’exposure’ and subcategory==’population’ and layertype==’raster’