Hi Denis
In the context of Humanitarian Responses, there are various situations were we
have specific requests. We accepted for the Nepal response to spot eventual
helicopter landing zones. We did setup a Skype room to discuss with people with
experience with helicopters. Often in the context of such emergencies, we dont
necessarily have the contact with the persons that would use the data or any
feedback.
But the interface with operationals in the field is essential. This is
something we should improve. If organizations want to work with us to do such
tasks, they should interface and assure we can progress rapidly with quality
data.
For the Vanuatu response, I had the opportunity to share my screen from Skype
with an airport controller to validate each landing field on the various
islands. This was an efficient, rapid way to validate the data, and adjust if
necessary. We could evaluate if this was a valid landing zone, evaluate the
lenght of the runway and revise the tags.
If there are any interest to repeat such experiments, I agree, we need this
type of discussion with organizations that actively fly helicopters & planes
within the affected areas.
Private tasks could be setup to reserve the access to experienced contributors
that have been trained to do such jobs.
regard
Pierre
De : Denis Carriere <[email protected]>
À : "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc : Jack Reid <[email protected]>; Kathmandu Living Labs
<[email protected]>; Jennifer Bottrell <[email protected]>
Envoyé le : lundi 7 novembre 2016 10h29
Objet : Re: [HOT] Surveying Helicopter Landing Zones (HLZs)
During the Nepal earthquake relief effort, mapping HLZs (Helicopter Landing
Zones) did not seem very coordinated, many factors need to be taken into
consideration to properly define a HLZ. I can confirm that very little of the
OpenStreetMap HLZ data was not used for any mission planning by any NGO,
Government or UN aid during my time in Nepal.
However, it would be great to open this type of discussion with organizations
that actively fly helicopters & planes within these affected areas. Most of
these organizations already have a their own HLZ data with tons of precise
attributes associated with the particular HLZ & terrain data.
Before any mapping happens, we should properly define a HLZ OSM Wiki page to
clearly define how to map an HLZ.
https://gist.github.com/aaronpdennis/b4ce2012749bb025b886 (Humanitarian
purposed tags)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Helicopter_landing_zone (Not defined)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:emergency:helipad (Not defined)
@MAF & @MountainChild @KLL: It would be great to have your input on this topic.
Cheers,
~~~~~~Denis CarriereGIS Software & Systems SpecialistTwitter: @DenisCarriere
OSM: DenisCarriereGitHub: DenisCarriereEmail: [email protected]
On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 7:11 AM, Blake Girardot HOT/OSM
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Keith,
I worked a lot on this issue during the Nepal 2015 response.
What you propose sounds great. We had a lot of difficulty trying to do
this via the tasking manager for several reasons.
I would love to speak with you more about it, maybe we could chat via skype.
Cheers,
Blake
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Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
President, HOT Board of Directors
skype: jblakegirardot
HOT Core Team Contact: [email protected]
On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Keith Darby <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
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