ArcGIS Workflow: Natural Disaster Visual Analysis With ArcGIS Pro: Case Study Morocco '23 Earthquake

Dr. VanHorn shows a portion of his classroom lab at Calvin University using ArcGIS Pro to visually inspect pre- and post- earthquake areas in Morocco. Using Maxar Open Source raster satellite imagery, Dr. VanHorn shows one of many pathways for students to evaluate disaster mitigation through step-by-step visual assessment of natural disaster areas, create databases of those affected areas, and how to share those locations in other places, such as Google Maps.
ArcGIS Pro Skills Discussed:
- How to Add Data
- How to Link Views
- How to create a Feature Dataset
- How to create a Feature Class
- How to calculate geometry
- How to add coordinates from x and y
- How to export table data to .csv
- How to show coordinate location in Google Maps

[@justinquarshie5732]

Thanks for the insight, but how can we download the Maxar imagery

[@MapYoda]

www.maxar.com/open-data/

[@tophattommy2]

What is the benefit of using float as compared to double on the lat/long? I learned to use double but never looked past that as it worked and appeared accurate. Self taught here with over 7 years of GIS experience.... I love to learn new things every day!
GREAT video!

[@MapYoda]

Double is great and there is little disadvantage, so keep using it. I like the float for the typically shorter 6 numbers past the decimal point because most location reporting doesn't require any more precision. Here we have centroids, so certainly no need for double level precison for centroid coordinates.