Hi Pierre, What organizations are specifically asking for OSM crowd based damage assessments?
Cheers, Blake ---------------------------------------------------- Blake Girardot Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team skype: jblakegirardot HOT Core Team Contact: [email protected] On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Pierre Béland <[email protected]> wrote: > The Potential3.0 team are both Imagery and UAV experts and experimented OSM > contributors that developped their expertise in Haiti following the 2010 > earthquake. Fred Moine and Presler Jean UAV project started with the Sandy > Hurricane in 2012. Since then, they organized regular UAV small civil drones > flights, they worked with hydrologists and collaborated with municipalities > to identify the most at-risk homes in places such as Rivière Grise and > Canaan. Municipalities programmes have been set up for the relocation of > most at risk people. > > Quite a coincidence, Fred Moine arrived in Port-au-Prince a few days before > the Matthew hurricane for a new UAV mission. He did not know that this would > be a Long Journey to provide technical support directly to the Haiti Civil > protection and the CNIGS agency and organize UAV missions in such a > difficult context it is presently in the south-west peninsula of Haiti. > > With some 80% of houses severly damaged or destructed in some areas hit by > the hurricane, a vast Program of Reconstruction is organized by the Haitian > government, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the World Bank. > Since it is not possible to send teams in the cities with the hunger and > difficult access, these organizations count on Post-disaster evaluations > from UAV to evaluate the damages and evaluate the financial effort for this > response. > > Two weeks ago, Fred Moine, Xavier Lamure-Tardieu and Presler Jean started to > organize the Response in Port-au-Prince with the Haiti OSM community the > humanitarian response from the field. Long standing Leaders of Activations > with experience in the development of the Haitian OSM community over the > last years, we joined-in to support at distance our Haitian collegues in > such difficult days. Boy scout Association of Haiti joined also to help the > response and arranged last week Fred's helicopter flight to Jeremie. They > are also sollicited to contact people in various areas and identify > information usefull for the response. > > > Experimented OSM contributors needed for the response > > To make a success of this action we need the participation of experimented > OSM contributors from around the world as we did for other responses in the > past. > > This MapAction map shows the zones with highest winds and most of the > damages. The population in these areas is particularly at risk with the > difficulty to join them, to provide water, food and sanitation and take care > of the wounded. > http://reliefweb.int/map/haiti/haiti-hurricane-matthew-general-overview-and-track-6-oct-2016 > > The priority zone to look at is west of the RN 7, the main road going from > Les Cayes to Jeremie. Also on the north of the peninsula Nippes department, > areas going east up to Baradères have to be prioritized. > A priority task for now is to revise all roads in these zones to assure that > all the villages are connected to the highway network. > > Experimented OSM contributors are also needed to evaluate the damages from > the UAV images and support the Reconstruction projects. > > > Post-disaster tasks > > A "Premiere" in such humanitarian responses with the presence of > Potential3.0. We already have UAV images for 5 square km (Jeremie + part of > Les Cayes). An other 5km2 should be ready within 24 hours to complete the > coverage of Les Cayes. The haitian government agencies and international > organizations are quite impressed to have access to such accurate images > early in the response. We should give a hugh to the haitian volunteers and > Potential3.0 for their efforts and reconfort them, let them find the energy > to continue to respond to such a disaster. > > Fot this Matthews response, Fred accompanied the Civil Protection team last > week in Jeremie. As a fallen bridge stopped any circulation by road, they > travelled by helicopter and worked in difficult conditions without > communication and power. Fred succeeded to bring back near infrared images > of Jeremie while the other camera was on repair. > > This weekend, the 15, Fred an Presler organized UAV flights over Les Cayes. > They brought back the 16 the images to Port-au-Prince and processed them > rapidly, sticking the images together and georeferencing them. As he did for > many OSM responses, Jean-Guilhem Cailton processed also rapidly produncing > tiles and transferrting these on the OSM-Fr server. The 17, 5km2 of images > were already available. Quite impressive! > > The haitian government officials and the assessment teams from the IDB and > World Bank were astonished to see the operational capacity of this NGO run > by volunteers, their flexibility, rapidity and technical mastering of such a > complex operation. > > > The post-diasaster tasks are at http://taches.francophonelibre.org/ and the > instructions in both english and french. Private tasks have been setup to > assure that experienced contributors only participate to the mapping. > > There is a task presently to complete the evaluation for Jeremie. Once > completed, the focus will move to Les Cayes. > UAV NIR image of Jeremie > https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/images-uav-jeremie_107330#20/18.65028/-74.11740 > UAV Color image of Jeremy Port > https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/fr/map/images-uav-jeremie_107330#21/18.64385/-74.11236 > > > If you want to help, please contact us and provide us your osm account to > access the task and contribute. > > Please come and help. > > > Pierre > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
