[HOT] Research Projects on Damage Assessment

[Blake Girardot]

Dear Friends!

You, open mapping, open data and OpenStreetMap in general are having a
really big impact on the entire landscape of disaster management. From
building resilience, to reducing disaster risk to disaster response
and through the recovery phase, your contributions are making a
difference. And at every organizational level too, from
inter-governmental response like UN, EU, and the international donor
community, to people like Johnathan and OSM Peru and every level in
between.

This research project and the next one coming in a few weeks are good
indications of your importance to this process and a great opportunity
to dramatically increase the impact your work has for years to come.

If you could please take some of your time and participate in these
research exercises your voice will be heard and guide the partnership
between our (yours and mine) volunteer geo-spatial community and
humanitarians around the world.

Thank you for everything you do to improve our shared planet!

Cheers,
Blake



On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 2:48 AM, Cristiano Giovando
<cristiano.giovando at hotosm.org> wrote:
> Hello team,
>
> Over the last months HOT has been engaged on two different research
> projects about damage assessment after a disaster using crowdsourced
> methods.
>
> The first project is looking at levels of damage and how these could
> be estimated using statistical functions from the data being produced
> by microtasking assessments. Towards the end of the month, we will be
> launching some experiments using the pybossa platform for anyone to
> contribute. You can read more about this project here:
>
> https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-04-26_hot_research_partnership_on_crowdsourced_damage_assessment
>
> The second project, funded by the European Space Agency and developed
> with our partners at IIASA, is focused on rapidly determining the
> spatial extent of damaged areas after a large disaster. We are
> launching our first experiment campaign today, and you can read more
> about the project here:
>
> https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-05-02_rapid_mapping_of_damage_extent_after_a_disaster
>
> Through both these research projects we hope to develop methods that
> we can then integrate into HOT's mapping workflow, and improve the way
> we respond and prioritize areas.
>
> We'd love to hear your feedback and if you can spare a few minutes,
> please contribute directly to the first test campaign over at Picture
> Pile (http://www.geo-wiki.org/games/picturepile).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cristiano, Robert, Melanie, Benni and Blake
>
> --
> Cristiano Giovando
> Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
> cristiano.giovando at hotosm.org
> http://www.hotosm.org
>
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