Articles | Volume 20, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-323-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-20-323-2020
Research article
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28 Jan 2020
Research article |  | 28 Jan 2020

Estimating exposure of residential assets to natural hazards in Europe using open data

Dominik Paprotny, Heidi Kreibich, Oswaldo Morales-Nápoles, Paweł Terefenko, and Kai Schröter

Data sets

Pan-European Copernicus Land Monitoring Service https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european

GISCO: geographical information and maps Eurostat http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/overview

OpenStreetMap OpenStreetMap https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Uninet LightTwist Software https://lighttwist-software.com/uninet/

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Short summary
Houses and their contents in Europe are worth trillions of euros, resulting in high losses from natural hazards. Hence, risk assessments need to reliably estimate the size and value of houses, including the value of durable goods kept inside. In this work we show how openly available or open datasets can be used to predict the size of individual residential buildings. Further, we provide standardized monetary values of houses and contents per square metre of floor space for 30 countries.
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