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UN Releases a Disaster 2.0 Report Outlining Ways to Harness Technology and Volunteers

by Matt Ball on April 4, 2011

The United Nations has released a new report that analyzes how humanitarian aid to areas struck by natural disaster can better use new volunteer communities and technologies in their response. The document takes a close look at the response to the earthquake in Haiti in 2010, and recommends ways to improve the coordination of these [...]

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Recapping a Revolutionary Year of Crisis Mapping

by Matt Ball on March 7, 2011

Patrick Meier, director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, posted a detailed account today of a year full of projects on his blog iRevolution. These crisis mapping efforts included the game-changing Haiti earthquake response, the subsequent earthquakes in Chile and Pakistan, monitoring in Southern Sudan, and the social unrest in Libya. The crisis-by-crisis account details different [...]

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A Look at Information Technologies and Outreach for the Haitian Earthquake

by Matt Ball on October 17, 2010

There’s an interesting paper from the World Medical & Health Policy journal via The Berkeley Electronics Press that is titled, “Volunteered Geographic Information and Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief: A Case Study of the Haitian Earthquake”. The paper looks at web-based mapping services and the outpouring of volunteer help, specifically CrisisCamp , OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi and GeoCommons. The [...]

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Crisis Camps Kick Off for Chile Earthquake Response

by Matt Ball on March 6, 2010

After the successful and ongoing largely-volunteer mapping efforts to respond to the Haiti earthquake, it’s heartening to see that there’s momentum for this approach in response to the massive earthquake that struck Chile. There are Crisis Camps this weekend and stretching into the future for both Haiti and Chile that are viewable at this page [...]

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LIDAR for Earthquake Planning and Post-Event Assessments #ILMF10

by Matt Ball on March 3, 2010

Ken Hudnut of the U.S. Geological Survey discussed the use of LIDAR for both the Chilean and Haiti earthquakes at the ILMF event. Using the same scale, he showed the dramatic difference in size and shake pattern between these quakes. The Chilean fault size area was 60,000 sq km vs. 600 sq km in Haiti. [...]

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What can be learned from the volunteer mapping efforts for Haiti?

by Matt Ball on January 31, 2010

The unfolding events in Haiti have underscored the fact that accessibility to map making tools and open spatial data can make anyone a mapmaker. Mapping is an activity that provides a tangible means for concerned citizens to reach out and help make sense of a very complicated and evolving situation where the more that is [...]

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Geo Community Pours Effort into Haiti Quake

by Matt Ball on January 13, 2010

It’s amazing how far the geospatial community has come in the quick and largely volunteer effort to respond to large-scale disasters. There are now dedicated sites and corps of crisis mappers that map from afar, and visit the site of the disaster to help relief agencies and governments in their response. Among the activities ongoing [...]

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