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EnviroAtlas: Incorporation of Community-Scale Data for Additional Communities
Citation:
Neale, A., L. Jackson, AND R. Moore. EnviroAtlas: Incorporation of Community-Scale Data for Additional Communities . U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/S-15/002, 2015.
Impact/Purpose:
This is a clearance for completion of an APR product as part of the SHC (old RAP 1.2.3) new RAP 1.62) program project. The deliverable was the incorporation of up two six additional communities incorporated into EnviroAtlas. This product is an APR for Q4.
Description:
EnviroAtlas is ORD’s online spatial decision support tool for viewing and analyzing the supply, demand, and drivers of change related to natural and built infrastructure at multiple scales for the nation. Maps and text identify known relationships between the goods and services provided by nature and societal benefits, in order to facilitate a full accounting of how decisions affect progress towards sustainability. In addition to watershed-scale data covering the coterminous U.S., EnviroAtlas includes high-resolution landcover and metrics for selected communities; these metrics are summarized by Census block group. The community component of EnviroAtlas emphasizes local natural and built infrastructure with direct relevance to public health, together with fine-scale distribution of the population and disproportionately vulnerable groups.