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GET STARTED

PUT IN-CORE TO WORK IN YOUR COMMUNITY

HOW

IN-CORE

WORKS

IN-CORE enables leaders, consultants, and researchers to set up complex interdependent models of entire communities to predict their performance and recovery from natural hazard events.

IN-CORE begins by mapping the whole community.

SOCIAL

Population metrics
Households
Institutions
Schools
Religious centers

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ECONOMY

Government spending
Household incomes
Commerce

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PHYSICAL

Buildings
Homes
Power
Transportation
Water

IN-CORE then models one or more of the following natural hazards and predicts interconnected impacts to the community.

FLOOD

TORNADO

CLIMATE
RISK

TSUNAMI

WILDFIRE

HURRICANE

EARTHQUAKE

IMPACTS

REVEALED

THROUGH

IN-CORE

  • Population dislocation
  • Disruption to critical services
    • Emergency shelters
    • Hospitals
    • Power and water
  • Damage to homes and buildings
  • Economic disruption
    • Loss of income
    • Business disruptions
    • Estimate of repair costs
    • Change to domestic supply

Get Started with IN-CORE

There are two ways to get started, depending on technical needs and capabilities.

Technical Users

The free, super-computing, open-source tool requires coding capabilities to build models tailored to individual communities.

Recommendations:

  • Basic Python knowledge (or programming knowledge)
  • IN-CORE account
  • Familiarity with Jupyter notebooks

Community Leaders

IN-CORE offers coding services and assistance for general users to model your community for you. Don’t have coding experience? No problem.

Project IN-CORE, a nonprofit organization, offers fee-based training for users, technical support for under-resourced communities and contract services.