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Vector dataset representing drought severity indicators aggregated to local municipality boundaries for KwaZulu‑Natal (KZN). The dataset was produced by joining zonal drought statistics derived from a provincial drought raster to the official local municipality boundary layer and clipping the result to provincial extent for disaster risk assessment and reporting. |
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Vector dataset representing drought severity indicators aggregated to local municipality boundaries for KwaZulu‑Natal (KZN). The dataset was produced by joining zonal drought statistics derived from a provincial drought raster to the official local municipality boundary layer and clipping the result to provincial extent for disaster risk assessment and reporting. |
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Produced by Herman Booysen, SRK Consulting
Project context: Disaster Management and climate risk analysis (internal GIS workflows) |
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<div style="font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:20px;"><p>This dataset represents drought conditions summarised at <strong>local municipality level</strong>, intended for planning, prioritisation, and reporting within disaster management and climate risk contexts.</p><p>Local municipality boundaries were sourced from the national municipal boundary datasets maintained and updated through multiple redetermination cycles (2009–2016). The final municipal layer was joined with zonal drought statistics derived from a reclassified drought raster, providing municipality‑level drought indicators based on spatial aggregation.</p><p>The dataset supports comparison of relative drought severity between municipalities and enables integration with socio‑economic, agricultural, and infrastructure datasets.</p><p>This is a <strong>screening‑level analytical product</strong> and does not represent real‑time drought conditions.</p><p> </p><div style="font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:20px;"><p>Selected attributes retained from the municipal boundary dataset and drought joins include:</p><ul><li><strong>MUNICNAME</strong> — Local municipality name</li><li><strong>NAMECODE</strong> — Composite municipality name and category</li><li><strong>CATEGORY / CAT_B</strong> — Municipal category classification</li><li><strong>DISTRICT / DISTRICT_N</strong> — District municipality</li><li><strong>PROVINCE / PROVNAME</strong> — Province name</li><li><strong>SUM</strong> — Summed drought metric from zonal statistics</li><li><strong>MAJORITY</strong> — Dominant drought class within municipality</li></ul></div></div> |
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<div style="font-family:'Segoe UI';font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;line-height:20px;">Screening‑level municipal drought assessment intended to support disaster risk profiling, planning, and prioritisation.<br>Not suitable for operational drought declaration, farm‑scale analysis, or temporal drought monitoring.<br>Use with supporting climatic data, expert interpretation, and local validation where possible.</div> |
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["Drought","drought severity","KwaZulu Natal","KZN","disaster risk","climate hazard","GIS","raster","screening","drought index"] |
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