How it works

Backed by world-leading scientific expertise from New Zealand Crown Research Institutes GNS Science and NIWA, RiskScape is available two ways, via the Engine or our online Platform.

Go it alone with the Engine for ultimate control and flexibility by installing our open-source engine and command line interface, or use our cloud-based Platform to enable sharing and ease of use.

RiskScape Engine

Users construct their own model using their data in a RiskScape environment.

  • Ultimate flexibility for experts – complete model transparency as you construct your model using your data expressed as a RiskScape pipeline of code.

  • Supports open standards – load your data in a range of open OGC formats. Code your functions in python. Use API to run within your environment.

  • Community support – join the community of RiskScape users in our community forum. Ask questions and connect with other users.

  • Online documentation – extensive set of tutorials and guides from getting started and installation to advanced modelling.

  • Free download for research purposes – released under the AGPL, download and install the engine and CLI on your device.

RiskScape Platform

Hosted full service, where users get the RiskScape team's expertise to build custom end-to-end risk analysis solutions, including models and dashboards to visualise outputs in a cloud-based online environment. 

  • Custom solutions – use our expertise to build custom end risk analysis solutions from data to models and visualising outputs.  

  • Collaborating and share – easily share models and outputs with your team. You control who has access and what model parameters can be changed.  

  • RiskScape as a service – web-based interface to your projects, hosted in the cloud. Use as much or as little as you need. 

  • Flexible support packages – matched to your needs. From ensuring you are always running on the latest version, to custom microsites for output. 

Technical specifications

Functional specifications

  • Calculate expected impacts from hazard events and quantify their uncertainties.

  • Provides a modular model framework for multi-hazard risk analysis.

  • Deterministic and probabilistic-based risk calculations.

  • Operate models in any geographical location.

  • Calculate risk for hazards with spatial and temporal dimensions.

  • Support a range of mathematical functions or relations to represent exposure vulnerability to impact from hazards (e.g. fragility functions, damage functions, damage-to-loss functions, etc.).

  • Operate models using input and producing output data that are independent of data classification or standards.

  • Interoperable with interpreted programming languages, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), spreadsheet software, database software and other risk modelling software applications.

Other specifications

  • Compatible with open-source software and software packages.

  • Works on common operating systems, e.g. Windows, Linux, Mac.

  • Operable on multiple interfaces (i.e. command line (CLI), graphical user interface (GUI)).

  • Offline and/or online mode.

  • Scalability for use on a basic laptop, multi-tenanted, cluster or cloud computing.

  • GIS file formats and geoprocessing functions are Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant.