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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