ABSTRACT
There have been concerted efforts in the United States and elsewhere toward coastal management and climate and disaster planning informed by vulnerability assessments and hazard risk analyses. Geographic information systems (GIS), remote sensing, global positioning systems (GPS), and, more recently, unmanned aircraft vehicles (UAVs) are fundamental components of hazards research and offer capabilities that can enhance our scientific approach to climate adaptation planning. The spatial analysis tools and techniques outlined in this chapter include spatial and non-spatial queries, geoprocessing, surface analysis, spatial statistics, spatial interpolation methods, remote sensing, geocomputation, decision support systems, and web-based GIS.
