Hello Keith, During the Nepal earthquake, the 'armchair mappers' where asked to draw circles on the aerial images in openstreetmap with a given diameter, visually selecting flat areas that where clear of buildings, trees and rocks. I think this would be a combination of your 1 and 2. http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/1023
3 would then not be uploading, but tagging the landing-zones with a certain quality based upon ground truth (making 4 unecessary). This could be done by people on site with a variety of (mobile/tablet) openstreetmap editors. 5 has been done in the Nepal situation already as far as I know. https://opensource.com/life/15/5/nepal-earthquake-hfoss In my opinion, HOT is an open community. You are free to conduct your study and I hope you will be thrilled by the unlimited possibilities of the openstreetmap data-model. Good luck and have fun! 2016-11-04 17:55 GMT+01:00 Keith Darby <[email protected]>: > All: > > I am a retired Marine Corps Helicopter Pilot, and a current Masters > Candidate in GIS Technologies at USC. > > I am working on my thesis, which is based on the premise that > crowd-sourced geospatial information, if properly structured, could aid > aircrews in surveying potential HLZs for disaster response. > > The work flow would be as follows: > > (1) Helicopter planners and aircrews would select potential HLZs in a > disaster-affected region, using whatever mission planning GISystem at their > disposal (normally baed on remote sensing data) > > (2) Those proposed HLZs would be uploaded to OSM. > > (3) Volunteers could select one of those HLZs and conduct a ground-truth > survey, following a script (that I would develop). > > (4) Those surveys would be uploaded to OSM and validated. > > (5) the Helicopter mission planners and aircrews could use those surveys > to select the best zones for disaster relief operations. > > I am looking at using the towns of Honokaa and Waimea on the northern end > of the Big Island of Hawaii as my study area, as I live close by, and I > have the local Community Emergency Response Team (volunteers) willing to > support. > > Who do I need to talk to about getting HOT permission to conduct a limited > objective study in this area? > > Thanks, > > Keith Darby > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > -- [image: http://www.dogodigi.net] <http://www.dogodigi.net> *Milo van der Linden* web: dogodigi <http://www.dogodigi.net> tel: +31-6-16598808
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