[HOT] Call For Participation: Remote damage assessment formal research experiment kick off

[Blake Girardot HOT/OSM]

Dear Friends!

As HOT Community members Robert Soden and Cristiano Giovando have
written about previously, HOT is part of 2 formal research projects on
remote damage assessment.

This is a critical area of research with several important questions
that need to be addressed. Things like timeliness, damage scales,
methods, types of damage that can be assessed remotely, etc.

After a great deal of preparation and planning, today we are launching
3 separate experiments with the Stanford Urban Resilience Initiative
(SURI), the World Bank’s Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and
Recovery (GFDRR), Heidelberg University, and the University of
Colorado, Boulder to explore traditional OSM based and new, innovative
approaches to remote damage assessments.

All of the details on how you can participate can be found in this
blog post from Cristiano:

https://www.hotosm.org/updates/2017-06-28_call_for_participation_crowdsourced_damage_assessment

These are easy ways to have another important impact on disaster
response on a global scale and help shape the direction of
crowdsourced damage assessments in the future!

Please pass this email along to folks you think might be interested,
and you can also re-tweet this announcement:
https://twitter.com/hotosm/status/880076668009938946

In addition to all the folks who are part of the research project,
special thank you's go to Bryan Housel, Nate Smith, Seth Fitzsimmons
and David  Neudorfer for their help in making the OSM based experiment
possible and American Red Cross for creating Portable OSM which the
experiment is using as the underlying platform.

Best wishes,
Blake
-- 

Blake Girardot
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

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[HOT] Call for Participation in Earthquake Damage Assessment Research

[Melanie Eckle]

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
 and blog
,
and other partners to research ways to improve crowdsourced imagery
analysis (see our previous blog here
).


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 
Damage Comparison 
Building by Building  (this requires an
OpenStreetMap account)

For more information about the different surveys and background, please
also see the Call for Participation blog

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
,
please contact sl...@stanford.edu 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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Re: [HOT] Query Regarding Mapathon

[john whelan]

I think its take your pick.  Generally speaking I'd choose something that
your mappers can relate to and provide feedback to them.

If it helps I am validating on http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2656# and
http://tasks.hotosm.org/project/2657# two fairly small projects that you
stand a chance of completing and the mapping will be validated fairly
quickly so there will be feedback for the mappers. I'm also keeping an eye
on 2861 so any new mapping done here will also get validated.

Cheerio John

On 28 June 2017 at 01:31, Saikat Maiti  wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> Thanks for your reply. I want to know that whether Missing Maps going to
> provide any specific task for Mapathon or we can choose any task based on
> priority on that date (19th Aug)?
>
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Dan Joseph 
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Saikat,
>>
>> There are a lot of great resources on http://www.missingmaps.org/host/
>> that will help you organize a mapathon.
>>
>> And there are usually a number of tasks that need mappers up on the
>> tasking manager http://tasks.hotosm.org/
>>
>> Did you have specific questions that aren't answered by those resources?
>>
>> All the best,
>> Dan Joseph
>> @danbjoseph
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 6:56 AM, Saikat Maiti 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear All,
>>>
>>> We are planning to host a Mapathon in India on 19th of August, 2017 (for
>>> HOT project ). We would highly appreciate if anyone can provide us with the
>>> relevant contact details.
>>>
>>> Thank you and best regards,
>>> --
>>> Saikat Maiti 
>>> Sr. Image Analyst
>>> Mahatma Education Society ,
>>> Mumbai
>>> India
>>> +91-9883512961 <+91%2098835%2012961>
>>> +91-8169867411 <+91%2081698%2067411>
>>>
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>
> Thanks and regards,
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> Sr. Image Analyst
> Mahatma Education Society 
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> +91-8169867411 <+91%2081698%2067411>
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