[HOT] Peace Corps mapping for Vanuatu

[Pierre Béland]

While we succeed to locate communication towers from imagery, it is often hard to spot them if you dont know where to search. Images are not always clear and sometimes cloudy. A team is presently deploying to inspect, repair the towers and provide communication services.

People with local knowledge are particularly useful to name objects, to complete the map we produce remotely, giving it more significance.
regard 
 
Pierre 

      De : fofana <fofana.13bazo at gmail.com>
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 Envoyé le : Vendredi 20 mars 2015 17h23
 Objet : Re: [HOT] Peace Corps mapping for Vanuatu
   
 
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 hi,
 this is a very good idea. as for the exact position of communications towers, it is necessary that we have teams on the ground who know the territory. I know it's risky, but if you are able to do this work, you provide information that remote mapping can not provide.
 


 Le 20/03/2015 19:56, Clark, Courtney a écrit :
 > Hello HOT community,
 >
 > The Peace Corps and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Washington DC will
 > host a Vanuatu response mapping event this coming Monday at our
 > headquarters. Vanuatu's current Peace Corps Volunteers will join via Google
 > Hangout from their evacuation point in Australia. At this point, we are
 > planning to ask the Vanuatu PCVs to use their local knowledge to map their
 > host communities and label key points such as communication towers, schools
 > and other buildings that can serve as shelters. Participants in the DC
 > event will map Vanuatu and other vulnerable islands in the South Pacific.
 >
 > That said, I am writing to ask for any other suggestions that members of
 > this community might have regarding our geographic focus. Our Vanuatu
 > Volunteers have excellent local knowledge of the nation that we can
 > leverage.
 >
 > Finally, the event is open to the public, so please come if you can!
 >
 > Details:
 > Monday, March 23
 > 6-8 pm
 > Shriver Hall, Peace Corps Headquarters
 > 1111 20th St NW, Washington DC
 >
 > Please email me with your suggestions, ideas and questions.
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 > Courtney Clark
 >
 >
 >
 >
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