This is a discussion we already had for Haiyan on the Coordination room with
OCHA and Red Cross. For major activations, it would surely be important to have
an Imagery monitoring tool that give to various actors the capacity to
visualize the same info, add various entries / tickets containing AOI's bbox
coordinates. A map could synthetise the various AOI's and imageries available,
the possibility of the various actors to comment on a specific task / request
would be also important.
For Haiyan, while we had many imageries for Tacloban, there were areas where it
took a long delay to obtain imagery. To have a better Imagery Monitoring tools
would surely have helped.
One essential aspect we should not forget, it is important that the
coordinators be informed of the various groups that try to find imagery.
Pierre
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De : Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com>
À : Mikel Maron <mikel_ma...@yahoo.com>
Cc : "hot@openstreetmap.org" <hot@openstreetmap.org>
Envoyé le : Vendredi 4 avril 2014 21h13
Objet : Re: [HOT] imagery request coordination tool
Mikel -
Right on, we need to work on coordinating imagery needs in emergencies.
I've been involved a couple of times in the past in sourcing imagery for
emergencies and the key challenge for someone who's between the responding
community and potential sources like e. g. Digital Globe is to:
a) find out what is needed
b) find out who is already trying to source what is needed
The resulting confusion are me sending out obnoxiously duplicative questions in
times where I shouldn't waste people's time.
As the specs for a software tool are coming together here I have a suggestion
for a very bare minimum measure:
Use a Github repo and issues for requesting imagery. Each issue should describe
the imagery needed with a http://geojson.io/ polygon describing the extent and
should say what resolution is needed / purpose the imagery is needed for. There
is one repo per incident. As soon as someone starts sourcing imagery they
should say so on the corresponding issue.
You could easily iterate from such a practice to a more integrated tool.
Alex
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Mikel Maron <mikel_ma...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hi Everyone
>
>
>In conversation among the Guinea Ebola activation coordinators, we discussed
>the need and potential for a software tool for coordination of imagery
>requests. I wanted to share that idea here, and maybe we can expand on the
>requirements and possible implementations on list and at the technical working
>group.
>
>
>We have more options than ever for imagery for activations, and a lot of
>conversations going on at once. What's needed is something to collectively
>coordinate our options, to avoid inevitable crossing of wires.
>
>
>Such a system would include
>* Make and track Area of Instance boundaries.
>* Form for standard set of questions when requesting imagery (ie justifying
>humanitarian need)
>* Show available Bing imagery for those areas.
>* Show available imagery from other providers.
>* Links to associated tasking manager jobs.
>* Comments/interaction on each AOI, so coordinators and imagery providers can
>stay informed of progress.
>* Flexible permission/visibility.
>
>
>Look forward to hearing from those interested on this idea!
>Mikel
>
>* Mikel Maron * +14152835207 @mikel s:mikelmaron
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