[Portugal] Re: Week-end volunterrs (until today) for Haiti damage assessment

[Artur Gil]

Sorry, just feeling it might be relevant to point out here :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Haiti

and particularly
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti/Imagery_and_data_sources 

Damage assessments from various sources (Ithaca, UNOSAT, JRC) are included in the OSM map, that is continually updated (and used on the ground).

Specialists are welcome to review and improve the quality. It is a wiki-like continuous improvement process. Like a Wikipedia for maps.

And if you enter the polygons directly in OSM, they will show up quickly in the maps.

The World Bank Data will be made available (as WMS layers for tracing) as soon as it becomes available (from what I understand).

Non-specialists are also very welcome, as there are so many things to be done (starting, e.g., at spell-checking toponymy and wiki editing), and so little people currently involved (relatively to the huge amount of work already done so far).

Please explore the links and spread the word.

Thank you for your help,

Best regards,
Jean-Guilhem Cailton
Toulouse, France

OpenStreetMap volunteer
(and remote sensing researcher and software developer)


> Dear Friends,
> 
> If you can spare a few hours till tomorrow evening, please contact Dr. Beverley Adams in her email address bja  imagecatinc. com in response to the mail below. 
> Thank you,
> Good Wishes,
> 
> Ambika Mukund,
> GIS Officer - Darfur ,
> Crisis and Recovery Mapping and Analysis Project (CRMA),
> UNDP - Crisis Prevention and Recovery Unit (CPRU), El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan.
> Call Sign:NM 4.4
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> 
> Dear All,
> 
> Pl. see the mail below from Dr. Beverley. She want a global help in doing the Phase 2 of the HAITI EarthQuake Damage Assessment. If you feel you are qualified then PL. HELP.  Time is very short..and the DEADLINE is SUNDAY...only 2 days of your involvement. .that too through INTERNET..you can do this by sitting in home or late evening inthe office. You can put this work in your biodata and it will give weightage as you have done some voluntary help to a GLOBAL CAUSE.
> 
> pl. read the mail below and contact Dr. Beverley ... She will give you a login and password.  (Please if you can do something then only you committ. Do not spoil your  name by unnecessary commitments)
> 
> thanks
> Jegan
> 
> ============ =
> Dear Jegan,
> 
> The Phase 2 detailed damage assessment for Haiti is ready to go, and we would like to invite yourself and your GIS colleagues in India to participate. Due to World Bank requirements for Q&A we ask that analysts hold Masters or PhD degrees in engineering, GIS or remote sensing.
> 
> This will involve using very detailed aerial imagery (opposed to satellite), to do the following:
> 
>     * Update Phase 1 damage points by creating a polygon footprint
>     * For each footprint assign a more detailed classification of damage (collapsed or very heavy damage)
>     * For each footprint assign a confidence level for your damage assessment
> 
>     * Adding new damage points and polygon footprints that you can now see on the more detailed aerial coverage. 
> The results will be used by World Bank planners in the coming days for critical reconstruction and recovery planning. We will be using the same management system as Phase 1, where analysts enter their login to Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV) and check out grids. Guideline documents for Phase 2 are attached.
> 
> To formally recognise the efforts of this community, whose outstanding efforts to date meant that the initial damage assessment was in the hands of World Bank's in-field team within 24 hours, we have established GEO-CAN (Global Earth Observation Catastrophe Assessment Network). For those wishing to become involved, we have new logins available. Just simply email myself or Shubharoop Ghosh (cc: here). 
> 
> We have an aggressive schedule in place for Phase 2, and we ask that all interpreters deliver their results to the team as soon as possible. We aim to have Phase 2 completed and checked for consistency by the end of the day on Sunday.  
> Our sincere thanks for any help that yourself and your colleagues are able to offer with this critical damage assessment for Haiti.
> Best wishes
> 
> Beverley 
> Dr. Beverley Adams
> Managing Director
>  ImageCat
> Communications House
> 63 Woodfield Lane
> Ashtead, Surrey, KT21 2BT
> United Kingdom
> Tel: +44 (0)1372 278777
> Mobile: +44 (0)7941 287313
> Fax: +44 (0)5601 155791
>  www.imagecatinc.com



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