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May 09, 2013
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Volunteered Subject Matter Expertise: Rapid and Remote Damage Assessment for Hait

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Walter Svekla

May 09, 2013

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  1. Volunteered Subject Matter Expertise Rapid and Remote Damage Assessment for

    Haiti Walter Svekla ImageCat, Inc. Social Tools for Crisis Response Net Tuesday Philly March 2, 2010 Volunteered Subject Matter Expertise Rapid and Remote Damage Assessment for Haiti

  2. January 12, 2010, 21:53 UTC (4:53pm EST), Magnitude 7.0 Map

    credit: USAID

  3. Downtown Port au Prince Photo credit: UN Photo/Logan Abassi

  4. None
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  6. 375 km2 145 mi2

  7. 1,500 grid cells 500m x 500m

  8. Global Earth Observation Catastrophe Assessment Network (GEOCAN)

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  10. July 27, 2009

  11. January 25, 2010

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  14. 0 2,000 4,000 6,000 8,000 10,000 12,000 14,000 16,000 20-Jan

    21-Jan 22-Jan 23-Jan 24-Jan 25-Jan 26-Jan 27-Jan 28-Jan 29-Jan 30-Jan 31-Jan 1-Feb 2-Feb Total Number of Digitized Footprints as a Function of Time

  15. Some Statistics Assessed Damage • 14,364 buildings digitized and assessed

    for damage by February 1 • GEOCAN volunteers checked out approximately 1,500 grid cells, covering about 375 km2 / 145 mi2 GEOCAN Social Network • Over 500 volunteers (196 were known members of EERI) • Representatives from - 23 countries - 60 universities - 18 government or non-profit institutions - 53 private companies

  16. Components of Success Social Network Earthquake Engineering Research Institute as

    a network of individuals with subject matter expertise and with desire to contribute Mobilizing/Catalyzing Event Despite being far from the devastation, individuals with desire to contribute non-conventional ways (donation of expertise and time vs donation of money/materials Technical Platform Ad hoc system utilizing Google Earth and email for assessing damage, transforming data (imagery to buildings to damage level), and communicating Critical Data Availability/Sharing Sharing of very high resolution post-event imagery by Google, GeoEye, etc., upon which damage assessment was based Appropriateness (does this touch on ethics?) Given the devastation and chaos on the ground in Haiti, what may be accomplished outside to assist? That is how may people contribute?