SW-IFL Heat Vulnerability Dashboard
Project Type
GIS technology
Status
The State of Arizona has urban regions that are experiencing rapid growth. This includes the Phoenix metropolitan area, which is among the fastest growing cities in the U.S., as well as Tucson and Flagstaff. The Southwest Urban Corridor Integrated Field Laboratory, also known as SW-IFL, seeks to develop and deploy novel observational and modeling capabilities that improve understanding of extreme heat as a central driver of environmental outcomes. GRS was contracted to develop a dashboard application that brings together Statewide data about heat, heat factors, and socio-demographic characteristics. The goal is to develop a starting point for a heat vulnerability analysis across Arizona. The dashboard contains Land Surface Temperature from NASA at a 1km resolution, which displays median land surface temperature for the time period of May 1, 2023 and September 1, 2023. Census tract data is then displayed with an emphasis on socio-demographic data from the 5-year American Community Survey 2018-2022.