RUSH: Rapid Remote Sensing Updates of landcover for Storm and Hurricane forecasts

RUSH is a tool for rapid repeat high resolution coastal vegetation maps to improve forecasting of hurricane impacts and coastal resilience. Vegetation cover in coastal settings significantly controls flooding, erosion, and barrier island breaching during extreme storms by reducing wave energy. That’s why obtaining up-to-date high resolution coastal vegetation cover is critical for modeling coastal impacts. With RUSH (v1.0.0), it is now possible to quickly and intuitively obtain near-daily 3-meter resolution landcover classification maps for use in hurricane impact forecasts. The tool can be accessed through the Jupyter Notebook Application and Graphical User Interface (GUI).