Dear HOT community, In recent disasters, such as the earthquakes in Haiti 2010 and Nepal 2015, disaster response organizations have been crowdsourcing the assessment of satellite imagery to locate building damage triggered by the event. HOT is often asked to support these efforts by helping to identify damage to buildings and other assets in the affected region. In the past, limitations in post-disaster imagery and difficulties in identifying building damage from aerial views have hindered these efforts.
HOT is partnering with the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative and Blume Earthquake Engineering Center, for more information see project homepage <http://urbanresilience.stanford.edu/rad-crowd/> and blog <https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-06-27_call_for_participation_crowdsourced_damage_assessment>, and other partners to research ways to improve crowdsourced imagery analysis (see our previous blog here <https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-04-26_hot_research_partnership_on_crowdsourced_damage_assessment>). We are now launching our projects and we’d appreciate your help in testing these crowdsourcing tools! The questions in these tools are ongoing, so spend as much time as you can spare. Your input will help improve building damage assessments following earthquakes and other natural disasters! There are three experiments in which you can participate: Damage Ranks <http://pybossa.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/project/exp2a/> Damage Comparison <http://pybossa.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/project/exp3a/> Building by Building <http://bit.ly/rad-crowd-exp1> (this requires an OpenStreetMap account) For more information about the different surveys and background, please also see the Call for Participation blog <https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-06-27_call_for_participation_crowdsourced_damage_assessment> on the HOT website. To learn about your experience and improve our survey, we would appreciate if you could provide your feedback in the user survey that is linked in the damage assessment experiments. The consent forms for this research can be found here <http://urbanresilience.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Consent-Waiver-of-Documentation-RAD-CrowdSurvey.pdf>, please contact [email protected] if you have any related question. We appreciate your help and thank you in advance for your contribution, Melanie, Cristiano, Robert, Benni and Blake on behalf of the whole project team
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