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Introducing Crisis Mapping: An Interdisciplinary New Field

Crisis mapping is an interdisciplinary field that uses new technologies like satellite imagery, social media, and crowdsourcing to provide operational support during humanitarian crises such as natural disasters, conflicts, and human rights issues. It involves monitoring events, visualizing and verifying data, detecting patterns, and facilitating partnerships between volunteer and formal response groups. Some examples include mapping elections, human rights violations, disasters like snowstorms and hurricanes. Key components are gathering data from satellites, social media, and volunteers then analyzing and visualizing it to help coordinate response efforts and address issues around privacy, verification, and completing the feedback loop to impacted communities.

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Introducing Crisis Mapping: An Interdisciplinary New Field

Crisis mapping is an interdisciplinary field that uses new technologies like satellite imagery, social media, and crowdsourcing to provide operational support during humanitarian crises such as natural disasters, conflicts, and human rights issues. It involves monitoring events, visualizing and verifying data, detecting patterns, and facilitating partnerships between volunteer and formal response groups. Some examples include mapping elections, human rights violations, disasters like snowstorms and hurricanes. Key components are gathering data from satellites, social media, and volunteers then analyzing and visualizing it to help coordinate response efforts and address issues around privacy, verification, and completing the feedback loop to impacted communities.

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Introducing Crisis Mapping: An interdisciplinary new field

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Crisis Mapping
To help provide operational humanitarian support for acute crises like natural disasters, conflicts, oil spills, tornados, snowstorms As witness or for evidence: monitoring elections, intimidation, human rights violations, torture, deaths, sexual harassment, GBV, wars

HarassMap

Syria Tracker

LA Bucket Brigade

Election Monitoring

Snowmaggedon

Origins & Antecedents

Participatory mapping

User-friendly platforms Google Earth Mashups Cell phones, twitter, text, social media

Maps as stories

Points of pride & Community resilience

Components of Crisis Mapping I: Data from Satellite Imagery

Satellite Sentinel Project: Deterring atrocities?

Activating the UN Charter

Grassroots mapping using balloons & kites

Components of Crisis Mapping II: Data from New Media


Crowdsourcing Volunteers & Media monitoring SMS Short-codes

Haiti Crisis Map

Google Map of Port au Prince

Open Street Map - 24 hours later

The power of the volunteer OSM community

Open Street Map: http://vimeo.com/9182869

Verification I

Verification II

Visualization

Creative Visualizations: Napoleons March

Frontiers in Crisis Map Visualization


Ushahidi: puddles, footprints & sonar GeoTime

CM Analytics. Detecting Spatial Patterns: Snows Cholera Map

Crisis Mapping Analytics


How to detect the signal from the noise? Understanding existing patterns, dynamics, trends Testing for spatial effects (autocorrelation, clustering/dispersion) Testing hypotheses (proposed correlations, relationships) Forecasting Data-mining

Drinking water from a firehose

How to find ways to automate the coding process Crowdsourcing & verification Tagging Analysis

Detection of changes/signals/trends

Crowdsourcing the filter using Swift River

Privacy, security & ethics

A new kind of disaster response

Partnerships between VTCs & Formal Institutions for Disaster Response Addressing concerns: Standby Task Force Completing the feedback loop: Critical info is sent back to community Facilitating P2P connections

The dynamic power of networks like www.crisismappers.net/

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