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Volunteered Subject Matter Expertise Rapid and Remote Damage Assessment for Haiti Walter Svekla ImageCat, Inc. Social Tools for Crisis Response Net Tuesday Philly March 2, 2010 Volunteered Subject Matter Expertise Rapid and Remote Damage Assessment for Haiti
January 12, 2010, 21:53 UTC (4:53pm EST), Magnitude 7.0   Map credit:  USAID
Downtown Port au Prince Photo credit: UN Photo/Logan Abassi
 
 
375 km 2 145 mi 2
1,500 grid cells 500m x 500m
Global Earth Observation Catastrophe Assessment Network (GEOCAN)
 
July 27, 2009
January 25, 2010
 
 
Total Number of Digitized Footprints as a Function of Time
Some Statistics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Components of Success Social Network Earthquake Engineering Research Institute as a network of individuals with subject matter expertise and with desire to contribute Mobilizing/Catalyzing Event Despite being far from the devastation, individuals with desire to contribute non-conventional ways (donation of expertise and time vs donation of money/materials Technical Platform Ad hoc system utilizing Google Earth and email for assessing damage, transforming data (imagery to buildings to damage level), and communicating Critical Data Availability/Sharing Sharing of very high resolution post-event imagery by Google, GeoEye, etc., upon which damage assessment was based Appropriateness (does this touch on ethics?) Given the devastation and chaos on the ground in Haiti, what may be accomplished outside to assist? That is how may people contribute?

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Volunteered Subject Matter Expertise: Rapid and remote damage assessment for Haiti

  • 1. Volunteered Subject Matter Expertise Rapid and Remote Damage Assessment for Haiti Walter Svekla ImageCat, Inc. Social Tools for Crisis Response Net Tuesday Philly March 2, 2010 Volunteered Subject Matter Expertise Rapid and Remote Damage Assessment for Haiti
  • 2. January 12, 2010, 21:53 UTC (4:53pm EST), Magnitude 7.0 Map credit: USAID
  • 3. Downtown Port au Prince Photo credit: UN Photo/Logan Abassi
  • 4.  
  • 5.  
  • 6. 375 km 2 145 mi 2
  • 7. 1,500 grid cells 500m x 500m
  • 8. Global Earth Observation Catastrophe Assessment Network (GEOCAN)
  • 9.  
  • 12.  
  • 13.  
  • 14. Total Number of Digitized Footprints as a Function of Time
  • 15.
  • 16. Components of Success Social Network Earthquake Engineering Research Institute as a network of individuals with subject matter expertise and with desire to contribute Mobilizing/Catalyzing Event Despite being far from the devastation, individuals with desire to contribute non-conventional ways (donation of expertise and time vs donation of money/materials Technical Platform Ad hoc system utilizing Google Earth and email for assessing damage, transforming data (imagery to buildings to damage level), and communicating Critical Data Availability/Sharing Sharing of very high resolution post-event imagery by Google, GeoEye, etc., upon which damage assessment was based Appropriateness (does this touch on ethics?) Given the devastation and chaos on the ground in Haiti, what may be accomplished outside to assist? That is how may people contribute?