[HOT] Planet Labs satellite imagery for Crisis Mapping?

2016-01-21 Thread Patrick Meier (iRevolution)
Dear CrisisMappers, HOT and Digital Humanitarians, I'm collaborating with Planet Labs to explore if/how their imagery might support disaster management efforts. The aim of Planet Labs is to ultimately image the entire Earth every 24 hours at a spatial resolution of 5 mete

Re: [HOT] OAM Pre-Project Sprint

2015-01-21 Thread Patrick Meier (iRevolution)
Hi All, Really excited about this initiative. While I'm not able to join the call, I hope to participate in future calls. In the meantime, I've been doing some work on the "Humanitarian UAV" side, which may be of interest: http://uaviators.org http://uaviators.org/map http://uaviators.org/advis

Re: [HOT] Why OpenAerialMap?

2014-07-04 Thread Patrick Meier (iRevolution)
Great stuff, very excited about this new initiative and synergies with the Humanitarian UAV Network. Congrats on the grant, Kate & team! Patrick P. Meier (PhD) http://www.iRevolution.net On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 3:36 AM, Christian Ledermann < christian.leder

Re: [HOT] Micromappers feeding into OSM

2014-05-22 Thread Patrick Meier (iRevolution)
then into disaster preparedness? How > can we create communities around data especially during the later > reconstruction phases and then during preparedness to contribute to lessen > the impact of the next disaster? > > Best, > > -Kate > > > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 3:06 AM

Re: [HOT] Micromappers feeding into OSM

2014-05-21 Thread Patrick Meier (iRevolution)
Hiya Kate, So AIDR and MicroMappers (MM) are two different platforms albeit integrated (I know, confusing). AIDR is used to collect Tweets and to create machine learning classifiers. MM is used to train AIDR to create machine learning classifiers. MM is also used to tag photos and videos posted on

Re: [HOT] Data from Civilian Air Patrol's Hurricane Sandy recon & crowd sourced damage assessment

2013-02-07 Thread Patrick Meier (iRevolution)
Awesome idea, Tim. Please let me know if there's anything I can do to help should the data be available. I may be able to commit some internal resources from the Qatar Foundation to support this initiative. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:43 PM, Tim McNamara wrote: > I was wondering if the image data