Dear Friends! As HOT Community members Robert Soden and Cristiano Giovando have written about previously, HOT is part of 2 formal research projects on remote damage assessment.
This is a critical area of research with several important questions that need to be addressed. Things like timeliness, damage scales, methods, types of damage that can be assessed remotely, etc. After a great deal of preparation and planning, today we are launching 3 separate experiments with the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative (SURI), the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), Heidelberg University, and the University of Colorado, Boulder to explore traditional OSM based and new, innovative approaches to remote damage assessments. All of the details on how you can participate can be found in this blog post from Cristiano: https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-06-28_call_for_participation_crowdsourced_damage_assessment These are easy ways to have another important impact on disaster response on a global scale and help shape the direction of crowdsourced damage assessments in the future! Please pass this email along to folks you think might be interested, and you can also re-tweet this announcement: https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/880076668009938946 In addition to all the folks who are part of the research project, special thank you's go to Bryan Housel, Nate Smith, Seth Fitzsimmons and David Neudorfer for their help in making the OSM based experiment possible and American Red Cross for creating Portable OSM which the experiment is using as the underlying platform. Best wishes, Blake -- ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list HOT@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
