Disasters 2.0: Real Time Collaboration: Documentation and Mapping
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Midwest Disasters 2.0
Real Time Collaboration: Documentation and Mapping
By Dr. Connie White, Institute for Emergency Preparedness, JSU
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What’s it all about?
Right Information Right People Right Time
Make the Best Decisions PossibleGeorgia (Gwinnett and Douglas Counties) Floods 2009
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Characteristics of Disasters
Time critical High
Uncertainty
Unexpected events
Decisions are made. Mena, AR (Polk County) EF3, 2009
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Challenges in Information Ambiguity & Uncertainty Lack of Situational awareness Need for Reliable Information
Mena, AR (Polk County) EF3, 2009
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Managing the Expected and Unexpected
• Accessibility • Information Aggregation • Mobility• Free • Disseminate quickly and to masses
or few• Tweet/post with link• Flexible - easily modified• Group membership dynamic• Share
Destin, FL (Okaloosa County) BP Oil Spill 2010
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Google Suite
Real Time DocumentsTo Support
Time Critical Decision Making
Georgia (Gwinnett and Douglas Counties) Floods 2009
7Google Chrome Browser
8Google Suite
of Tools
9Must have
Gmail Account
10Gmail to Suite
11Google Documents
12Editor
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Share With People
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Share with Other Social Media
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Hands On Demo - Documentation
1. Install Google Chrome
2. Create Gmail Account3. Go To Documents4. Look at Twitter Feed
for Link to Open Document
5. Play
www.gmail.com
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Case Study: Snow in The Deep South
Windham, New Hampshire Feb. 2011 Blizzard
Why Forms and Spreadsheets?
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Official Closures for County
How to collect data from officials?
How to disseminate to employees and public?
Keeping it accurate.
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Create New Form
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Type in Question, Select Question Type
*Question 1 will be Column 1 on Corresponding Spreadsheet
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Type in Next Question til Done
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Official
Themes
and Locos can be
used
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Created in Minutes
and Disseminated Quickly
for Fast Accurate
Response!
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Embedded in Email makes submissions quick and easy!OrPeople can go to Form on Site through link.
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Dynamic
Link to Form
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Self Learning Environment
Video Tutorials
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Why Mapping?• Situational Awareness • Community
Information• Information
aggregated from anywhere
•Reflect the State•CrowdSourcing•Flexible, Dynamic•Update realtime•Free and Easy
New Orleans, LA. Hurricane Katrina, 2005
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OpenStreetMapsWikiMapiaGoogle EarthGoogle MapsESRI OnDemand
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Crisis Mapping Case: Haiti
http://mommylife.net/archives/2010/01/real_hope_for_h.html
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The Initial Map After the Earthquake
(source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikel_maron/4274264767/)
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OpenStreetMap is a Creative Commons project, sort of geographic Wiki.
This map is updated in real time.Rescue teams and NGOs on the ground are using Garmin GPS .
It only took a few hours to members of the free mapping community to respond.
http://www.3d-today.org/2010_01_01_archive.html
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Yellow crosses indicate the streets blocked by obstacles.
Yellow crosses on red background are the collapsed buildings.
White tents on a red background are the camps of survivors.
http://www.3d-today.org/2010_01_01_archive.html
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Information on People is listed here along with pinpoints (hidden from view)
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Real Time Collaborative Tools
Better Decision Making
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Word of Caution - this is ever changing so expect to learn something new all the time!
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THE END
Book Coming Soon!http://www.amazon.com/Social-Crisis-Communication-Emergency-Management/dp/1439853495/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285338755&sr=8-1
THE END
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