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HOT is honored & humbled to announce that our community has been selected by The Audacious Project & will receive support to map an area home to 1 billion people at risk of disaster who are not currently on the map. #Audacious2020 #TED2020 bit.ly/2YcPVFi

Patrick Meier For sure - we talked with FEMA about doing error analysis of video collected after an earthquake to previous survey data like aerial LiDAR or oblique ortho to detect and quantify structural damage. This was for the recent Puerto Rico earthquake. We weren’t far enough along then.

Congratulations team for winning the Best Paper Award at ISCRAM 2020. “Rapid Damage Assessment Using Social Media Images by Combining Human & Machine Intelligence”, a collaboration result between QCRI & Montgomery Co CERT. Muhammad Imran ferda ofli Firoj Alam Umair Qazi Steve Peterson

1/2 - To all my humanitarian, academic, and technology friends. I am working on my #master thesis which focuses on the effects #technology has had on the #humanitarian sector over the past decade and how people envision it changing it in the future. #research

Humanitarian organizations are increasingly turning to drones to support disaster response efforts. Yet many fail to use this technology effectively. Check out this peer-reviewed online course to learn why, and how to avoid these failures bit.ly/3nxiGHA

See the REAL TIME map of voter suppression happening around the country here: bit.ly/3iVp3Rn

Very pleased to share this fully revised and updated Code of Conduct on the use of UAVs in humanitarian action! The full review and update was kindly spearheaded by @HHI_Signal at @HHI_Signal 🙏 To read the new Code and to share your feedback: UAVCode.org

From the CrisisMappers archives, 10 years ago...

On crisis mapping - why are maps of crises in the 'global south' more widespread? Who gets to define crises? Where are the maps of white supremist uprisings in the US Mapmaker #DecolonizeTheMap #decolonize #osm

Here is an open link to the Cavaillon ortho: bit.ly/3kATkrj Anyone interested in helping annotate please let me know so I can send you a link for editing. #dronedeploy #drones #mapping #haiti #ayiti #Haitiearthquake #dronefsorgood ADF Haiti Pacific Disaster Center - PDC Global @stevelaros

In the aftermath of #HurricaneIda2021, Direct Relief & Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health are analyzing population movement data in coordination with @Facebook to understand where people might go, post-storm, & where aid is most needed now CrisisReady directrelief.org/2021/08/data-i…

Crisis Map of Putin’s violence against the people of #Ukraine

The Russia-Ukraine Monitor Map is a crowdsourced effort by Centre for Information Resilience and the wider open source community to map, document and verify significant incidents during the conflict in Ukraine. Benjamin Strick explains how it works bellingcat.com/news/2022/02/2…

Maps show – and hide – key information about Ukraine war theconversation.com/maps-show-and-…

Ukrainians are scrubbing open-source maps to keep intel from Russia’s army - Rest of World restofworld.org/2022/ukrainian… with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Tyler Radford mikel , OSMF, OpenStreetMap, OpenStreetMap UA and Bellingcat

33 million have now been affected by #FloodsInPakistan and the number of fatalities has risen to 1,400. New maps from CrisisReady present updated data on population density changes & mobility patterns as the floods continue to devastate the country: crisisready.io/2022/catastrop…

Time to pull out an old friend of a tshirt to celebrate this network of humanitarians, civic tech, research, and business. It was the spark of so many ideas and friendships. Do you have your tshirt or a story to share? CrisisMappers