Crowd Sourcing A Real-Time Flood Map for Indonesia

Crowd-SourcingA Real-Time Flood Map for IndonesiaTomas Holderness <tomash@mit.edu>

“Information is the most important resource in a disaster”

- Harlan Hale, OFDA Regional Adviser, USAID

Pilot Study 2014/201560 days:

1,000 confirmed reports69,000 users100,000 #flood tweets2.2m Twitter impressions

Confirmed Flood Reports ≥ December 2015. https://petajakarta.org

https://github.com/smart-facility/cognicity-server

_v2.0 2015/201684 days of flood activity:

5,472 confirmed reports2,285 REM updates

Detik Twitter Qlue

Flooding 2016-04-21

Flooding 2016-04-21

Flooding 2016-02-25

Flooding 2016-04-21

Flooding 2016-04-21

_CogniCity v3.0

Bandung

Surabaya

Jakarta

Jakarta 32 Million

Surabaya 10 Million

Bandung 9 Million

Semarang 5 Million

https://github.com/smart-facility/cognicity-floodwatch

tomash@mit.edu | @iHolderness Images: Etienne Turpin, Frank Sedlar, University of Michigan, Tomas Holderness, Tempo Magazine