10.6084/m9.figshare.7108763.v1 Eli Lazarus Eli Lazarus Patrick Limber Patrick Limber Evan Goldstein Evan Goldstein Data for 'Building back bigger in hurricane strike zones' figshare 2018 barrier islands hurricane coastal development housing infrastructure land-use planning coupled human–environmental system coupled human and natural system risk vulnerability Environmental Management Environmental Science Geomorphology and Regolith and Landscape Evolution Physical Geography 2018-12-10 16:17:37 Dataset https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Data_for_Building_back_bigger_in_hurricane_strike_zones_/7108763 <div>This data set accompanies the article 'Building back bigger in hurricane strike zones' (Lazarus <i>et al</i>., 2018).</div><div><br></div><div>In this repository we include footprint area of individual buildings measured from pairs of aerial photographs (taken 5–14 yrs apart) at five separate barrier-island locations along the US East and Gulf Coasts.</div><div><br></div><div>Table 1 lists the years in which the aerial images were taken, and the endpoint locations (latitude and longitude, in decimal degrees) for the sampled reaches at each site.</div><div><br></div><div>Table 2 lists the location name, a building ID, and the pre-storm and "final" 2017 footprint areas (in m<sup>2</sup>) measured from aerial images. (Note that the pre-storm image year is not the same for each location.)<br></div>