Illustrative: rain routed down a catchment to the flood plain, generated, with the intensity of a scenario rising and falling
Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium · Twin engines
Twin engines and generators
Every faculty twin builder switches between the planet map, the globe and the 3D twin, runs the scientific generators of all nine faculties and exports each view with its credits.
01Defaults
Defaults, generators, sources, exports and standards and evidence
What each faculty opens on
The engine, layers and generator each faculty twin builder opens on; every other engine and generator is a click away.
The generator library
Every generator runs on every faculty’s twin; the method of each is stated and teaching models are labelled.
Engine sources and their register entries
Each source is admitted by its own entry in the data-source register and requested from the visitor’s browser; each request was checked from the Academy’s pages.
Export with credits
Every view exports as a PNG with the credits printed on it, its vector layers as GeoJSON and the generator output as CSV where the licences allow, and a citation file in JSON and text that names every source (provider, licence, date, address), the technology (MapLibre GL JS, three.js, OpenFreeMap, OpenStreetMap contributors, Natural Earth, NASA GIBS) and the page with Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium.
Nexus Standards it teaches and relies on
The Nexus Standards Twin engines and generators teaches toward, grouped by master standard, with the disciplines that teach each.
02Questions
Questions, answers and key terms
Is study here free?
Yes. Every course and learning material of Risk Academy, led by the Nexus Consortium, is free to study, self-paced or with a cohort. Ordinary participation has no fee; paid work, internships and fellowships are separate arrangements.
What does completing a course give me?
A completion record: the course, its version, the date and what was assessed, private by default and shared by you. It stacks into discipline, department and programme achievements. A record states what was studied and assessed and does not certify competence; it is not a licence, a professional title or an employment status.
Where do the data and the places come from?
Every faculty teaches on a twin of a real place built from open data; each layer carries its provider, licence and date, and every result on the Academy states its source. Maps and figures are indicators for teaching, never an assessment of a place.
How do I take part beyond every course?
Form a competence cell of three to seven people, study a shared pathway, take a supervised assignment in the National Working Groups, or bring a cohort from your institution. For organisations.
Key terms
Term
Teaching model
A simplified model labelled as such, for learning and never an assessment of a place, firm or system.
Term
Raster studio
The dated NASA GIBS layers of every faculty with a time slider, opacity, legend and a swipe compare of two layers.
ReportsContribute
Contribute evidence from this page.
Reports is the Consortium’s quarterly publication. What you know about this subject can become evidence, a case or a correction in the next edition, credited to you and published under CC BY 4.0 where it is your own work.
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Each faculty home, department and discipline page carries its twin builder.