Recon Portal¶

Recon Portal User Guide¶

The Recon Portal provides an interactive world map displaying natural hazard events with associated datasets. To select an event and view the available datasets, you can click on a marker on the map, browse the listing of events on the left, or use the search box above the listing of events. Datasets may be hosted in DesignSafe or may be links to other datasets available on the web.

Add a new natural hazard event¶

To add a new natural hazard event to the Recon Portal, please make the request via a Help ticket with the following information:

• name of the event
• date of the event
• event type (earthquake, hurricane, tsunami, etc)
• location of the event (city, state, lat/long, etc)
• location of your dataset for the event

Contributing your data to a natural hazard event¶

To contribute a dataset to an existing natural hazard event on the Recon Portal, please make the request via a Help ticket stating the name of the event and the location of your dataset for the event.