Hello team, Over the last months HOT has been engaged on two different research projects about damage assessment after a disaster using crowdsourced methods.
The first project is looking at levels of damage and how these could be estimated using statistical functions from the data being produced by microtasking assessments. Towards the end of the month, we will be launching some experiments using the pybossa platform for anyone to contribute. You can read more about this project here: https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-04-26_hot_research_partnership_on_crowdsourced_damage_assessment The second project, funded by the European Space Agency and developed with our partners at IIASA, is focused on rapidly determining the spatial extent of damaged areas after a large disaster. We are launching our first experiment campaign today, and you can read more about the project here: https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-05-02_rapid_mapping_of_damage_extent_after_a_disaster Through both these research projects we hope to develop methods that we can then integrate into HOT's mapping workflow, and improve the way we respond and prioritize areas. We'd love to hear your feedback and if you can spare a few minutes, please contribute directly to the first test campaign over at Picture Pile (http://www.geo-wiki.org/games/picturepile). Cheers, Cristiano, Robert, Melanie, Benni and Blake -- Cristiano Giovando Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [email protected] http://www.hotosm.org _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
