<div dir="ltr"><div><br>Hi there,<br></div><div><br>Thanks Blake and Cristiano, <br><br>We do monitor imagery releases and understand imagery management in humanitarian response, Fred and I have been in this field for quite some time...<br><br>When Fred wrote its email to the activation group dated 2-October 2016, the timing was good for a charter activation possible via Fred excellent relations with the Haitian government built over years right after the 2010 Quake with IOM. HOT US Inc Activation group decided not to seize that opportunity to be more proactive and handle as upfront as possible the imagery requests and the coverage of AOIs for openstreetmap to be put in the best position unleash its mapping power.<br><br>The same passivity seems to have gone with UAV imagery collection and Fred + Potentiel3.0 offer to help has not been considered.<br><br>Considering that this is the first time in the HOT US Inc history that a member of the organization experienced/equipped/ready is positioned in a country about to be hit by a disaster <br>Knowing how vital timely provision of hight resolution imagery for post disaster needs assessments and mapping in OSM is, <br>it's puzzling to consider that nothing has been done to harness such a promising situation.<br>It seems that nothing has been communicated nor no linkages made with other groups active on this front. <br><br>Policy-wise and procedure wise your point about UAV coordination is debatable: <br>coordination for imagery provision via relations with imagery providers and domain actors is at the heart of any OSM crisis response, why would UAV imagery be treated differently ?<br>At a time where the tech makes it almost as easy to fly a drone & collect imagery than collecting traces and waypoints with GPS. We are not going to give away our GPS, fieldppers, mobile apps, are not we? Why would we do this for UAV ?<br><br>Historically OSM in crisis response came as an innovation which succeeded and to succeed it had to be agile and sometimes disruptive, this how the HOT Project reached a milestone in the Haiti 2010 Quake response and "changed the course of humanitarian action for ever" (to quote JohnCrowley). <br><br>What happened to the 2010 ethos, agility, pragmatism that lead to the incorporation of HOT US Inc in Aug 2010 and the progresses registered so far? How can HOT US Inc come to this situation ie not using the skills of one of its members to boost the OSM/GIS crisis response by (i) helping to task satellites and (2) fly drones BEFORE any other UAV groups can deploy to the island ? <br><br>It's time to fix this and make sure HOT US Inc acts so that Fred and local Haitian dronists who grew up in the aftermath of the 2010 Quake and incorporate as a Haitiano-swiss association can do well for CycloneMatthew response what they had been doing well since 2012 Hurricane Sandy. It shall not be hard to provide connection and support with partners having logistics in Haiti and working with OSM like IOM, WFP, ARC to name a few to assist moving one or two persons with a drone over the island...<br><br>This means timely collected/processed/produced/released UAV imagery and OSM/GIS opendata<br>This also means consideration for local persons who built their capacities with the support of dedicated, skilled persons <br>This also means consideration for those who layed the ground for OSM, the HOT project and HOT US Inc in Haiti. <br>This also means not treating Cyclone Matthew crisis in Haiti like a country with no local OSM/UAV/opendata capacities.<br><br>Let's work this out and use Haitian home brewed UAV imagery among other UAV imageries hopefully produced in a coordinated manner <br><br>Best, <br>Nicolas <br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Cristiano Giovando <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:cristiano.giovando@hotosm.org">cristiano.giovando@hotosm.org</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Hi Nicolas,<div><br></div><div>Yes Fred's experience and presence in the field would be invaluable for collecting data. As Blake mentioned HOT does not really engage in UAV mapping during active disaster situations, so it would probably be best to coordinate with other field responders to understand their immediate needs. In either case, would be great if orthomosaics eventually produced could be contributed to OAM --> <a target="_blank" href="https://upload.openaerialmap.org">https://upload.openaerialmap.o<wbr>rg</a> for anyone to use.</div><div><br></div><div>With regards to the charter, it looks like it's been activated already five times for Matthew <a target="_blank" href="https://www.disasterscharter.org/web/guest/activations/charter-activations">https://www.disastersc<wbr>harter.org/web/guest/<wbr>activations/charter-activation<wbr>s</a> Would be great if you guys can follow up and understand what imagery has been made available and usable in OSM.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Cristiano</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail-m_1927845949450990148h5"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 11:44 AM, Blake Girardot <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:bgirardot@gmail.com">bgirardot@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>I agree, experienced UAV and local operators would be great.<br><br></div>HOT does not coordinate any UAV missions in disaster situations, that is handled by UAViators Humanitarian UAV Network as far as I understand things and have already seen them mentioned as providing coordination for Hurricane Matthew missions. Anyone flying UAV missions or offering UAV services should contact them and let them know of their availability or mission plans.<br><br></div>My understanding further is that OpenAerialMap will be used to index and display imagery collected as part of that. However OAM is glad to index and provide access to any UAV imagery collected properly in a crisis situation.<br><br></div>Regards,<br></div>Blake<br></div><div><div class="gmail-m_1927845949450990148m_6770487369334608865h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 5:21 PM, nicolas chavent <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:nicolas.chavent@gmail.com">nicolas.chavent@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Hey there, <br><br></div>At that stage of HurricaneMatthew response, can we know the status on Fred's proposal.<br><br></div>Fred has a unique experience and most robust experience within the HOT community and the HOT US Inc organization when it comes to <br></div>Haiti : multi years of work experience as GIS Officer for IOM right after 2010 quake working closely with OSM data and communities in a variety of GIS themes. <br></div>Imagery : multi years of work with UNOSAT prior 2010 quake. <br></div>UAV : Very first IM/GIS/RS Officer to use efficiently, timely UAV (Sensefly Ebee/pix4d) for damage assessment with a team of local Haitian. TGISers/mappers/Dronists both IOM staffs and Haitian OSM community members at the event of the Hurricane Sandy [1,2,3,4]. Fred had been supporting the development of drone-based capacities within IOM and at community level. Fred and the Haitian UAV collective have by far the largest experience of using drones in Haiti. Their expertise and experience spans imagery handling, imagery hosting (with OSMFrance) for OSM mapping and thorough modeling/analysis. They're a unique asset for this response. <br><br></div>They're the dream team (with equipments at hands) on standby to get local UAV OSM and opendata Haitian communities generating post disaster UAV imagery for Cyclone Matthew in a coordinated way. Fred did activate the Charter for Hurricane Sandy in 2012. They communicated in a timely fashion to be able to do for Cyclone Matthew what they have been doing well prior and after Hurricane Sandy (2012) response. <br></div><br></div>It would be great to know if we can count on their contributions for this response when various communities from the Humanitarian/Development sectors and the OSM community are responding. <br><br></div>Thanks <br></div>Nicolas<br><div><div><div><div><br>[1] : <a target="_blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<wbr>Hurricane_Sandy</a><br>[2] : <a target="_blank" href="http://drones.fsd.ch/en/2016/06/03/case-study-no-8-high-resolution-uav-imagery-for-camp-management-in-haiti/">http://drones.fsd.ch/en/2016/0<wbr>6/03/case-study-no-8-high-reso<wbr>lution-uav-imagery-for-camp-ma<wbr>nagement-in-haiti/</a><br>[3] : <a target="_blank" href="https://irevolutions.org/2014/07/09/uavs-for-disaster-risk-reduction-haiti/">https://irevolutions.org/2014/<wbr>07/09/uavs-for-disaster-risk-r<wbr>eduction-haiti/</a><br>[4] : <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oou32o-jR0M">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=Oou32o-jR0M</a><br><br> <br></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 12:50 PM, FredM <span dir="ltr"><<a target="_blank" href="mailto:frmoine@gmail.com">frmoine@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">
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<p>Dear all,</p>
<p>Strange I cannot open your link;<br>
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Sending back again <a target="_blank" href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2195">http://tasks.hotosm.org/projec<wbr>t/2195</a></p>
<p>In haiti right now, in stand by as OSM contributor + 1 uav ebee +
2 phantom 3 (3 batteries).</p>
<p>Ready to activate international charter as I have done it for
sandy.<br>
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All the best FredM<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I just looked at the 8pm update from
NHC and Matthew just tacked east and is likely to make a
direct hit of Haiti. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/025316.shtml?3-daynl"><span>http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refres<wbr>h/graphics_at4+shtml/025316.sh<wbr>tml?3-daynl</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I've looked over map in the area and
the roads are fairly good but buildings and other landmarks
are not well mapped. I think at this time its worth putting
out a preemptive mapping tasks for the South (Sud) admin
area that is most likely to get hit in roughly 48 hours or
so. Given the potential for life threatening rainfall and
floods.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>I went ahead and published tasks <a target="_blank" href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2195/"><span>http://tasks.hotosm.org/<wbr>project/2195/</span></a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The American Red Cross is likely to
respond to any significant event in Haiti or Jamaica. At
this point we are only preparing and have not made a
decision to deploy any staff or resources.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Je viens de regarder à la
mise à jour de 20 heures de NHC et Matthew est simplement
cloué et est susceptible de faire un coup direct d'Haïti.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/025316.shtml?3-daynl">http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refres<wbr>h/graphics_at4+shtml/025316.sh<wbr>tml?3-daynl</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"> </span></p>
<pre><span lang="FR">Je l'ai regardé sur la carte dans la région et les routes sont assez bons, mais les bâtiments et autres monuments ne sont pas bien cartographiés. Je pense à ce moment sa peine de mettre sur une des tâches de cartographie de préemption pour le Sud (Sud) zone d'administration qui est le plus susceptible d'être touché dans environ 48 heures ou plus. Compte tenu du potentiel pour la vie des précipitations et des inondations menaçant.</span><span></span></pre>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">Je suis allé de l'avant et
publié tâches <a target="_blank" href="http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2195/">http://tasks.hotosm.org/projec<wbr>t/2195/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR">La Croix-Rouge américaine
est susceptible de répondre à tout événement important en
Haïti ou de la Jamaïque. À ce stade, nous ne préparons et
n'a pas pris la décision de déployer de personnel ou de
ressources.</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>—</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>Dale Kunce</span></b><span> | </span><span>Global
Lead ICT & Analytics </span><span>| </span><span>International
Services</span><span> |</span><span> American Red Cross |
Cell <a target="_blank" value="+15108427523" href="tel:510.842.7523">510.842.7523</a> | Skype dkunce</span></p>
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