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Kiribati Building Aggregate Exposure
Resource ID
1d4568f7-2dc8-4955-ab3c-23c8b98f8067
Title
Kiribati Building Aggregate Exposure
Date
March 13, 2022, 9:17 a.m., Publication
Abstract
The building exposure database includes a comprehensive inventory of residential, commercial, public and industrial buildings, consisting of their location, structural characteristics that affect the vulnerability to the effects of natural disasters, and replacement costs. Sophisticated methodologies were adopted for (1) identifying the spatial distribution of buildings in each country, (2) estimating building characteristics, and (3) assessing their unit replacement costs. Raw building datasets, which included approximately 80,000 field surveyed buildings across 11 countries, was critically analyzed and thoroughly processed to develop the building exposure database. The spatial location of buildings for all populated areas of each 15 PIC was assembled with a high level of resolution that balance accuracy and economy. In general, buildings were either (1) manually digitized from high-resolution satellite imagery and surveyed in the field (coverage: PG, TO, VU, TV, SB, WS, CK, FJ, KI, PW, and FM), (2) manually digitized from high-resolution satellite imagery but not field verified (coverage: All 15 countries), (3) inferred using image processing techniques and/or census data (coverage: PG, FJ, KI, SB, TL, VU, FM, MH, and, to a lesser extent, SB, CK, TO, and TV), or (4) extracted from datasets acquired from government sources. Compiled by AIR Worldwide.
Edition
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Responsible
sachin
Point of Contact
Singh
sachindras@spc.int
Purpose
Pacific Catastrophe Risk Financing and Insurance Initiative (PCRAFI)
Maintenance Frequency
None
Type
not filled
Restrictions
None
License
Open Data Commons Open Database License / OpenDRI / PCRAFI / OSM
Language
eng
Temporal Extent
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Supplemental Information
No information provided
Data Quality
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Extent
  • x0: -174.54297899998082
  • x1: 176.8479960003151
  • y0: -11.446049999907586
  • y1: 4.699159999634276
Spatial Reference System Identifier
EPSG:4326
Keywords
no keywords
Category
None
Regions
Pacific , Kiribati