Patent Document ID: 9952353
Application ID: 14485669
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A system for aggregating and transforming data from multiple sources, the system comprising: a computer comprising a processor; and instructions which are executable, using the processor, to perform functions comprising: determining a location of interest for natural disaster risk analysis; determining a plurality of sources of data that describe a physical environment of the location; automatically ingressing, from selected ones of the plurality of sources, the data that describes the physical environment, wherein the ingressed data from at least a first of the selected ones comprises topography data pertaining to the location, the topography data formatted as a plurality of grid cells; programmatically transforming the ingressed data into data maps that are aligned to one another to allow referencing therebetween, further comprising: programmatically performing a watershed delineation process to determine, from the ingressed topography data, a watershed area for each of at least one watershed pertaining to the location; and programmatically removing, from the ingressed topography data, particular ones of the grid cells which do not include any of the at least one determined watershed area and which therefore do not directly contribute to precipitation run-off that can potentially reach the location of interest; evaluating risk of natural disaster pertaining to the location by using the aligned data maps as input to an evaluator selected from the group consisting of a simulation model and an analytic process; and comparing output of the evaluator to a first threshold and setting a risk of natural disaster to a highest level if the output exceeds the first threshold, and otherwise comparing the output of the evaluator to a second threshold and setting the risk of natural disaster to an intermediate level if the output exceeds the second threshold.