Nordic Geospatial Blog –

UPDATE 20111113
NASA GeoCam project – http://disastercam.blogspot.com/

Great tools for deciphering the torrent of #Twitter data -

http://gnip.com

http://www.geochirp.com/

http://trendsmap.com/

http://www.sat2twitter.com/

And a great UN effort to share pictures and their locations -

http://www.ansur.no/

& http://www.geo-pictures.eu/

Compelling TEDx talk by UK journalist Paul Lewis ( ) re: the citizen reporting and transparency paradigm shift which Twitter and allied social media tools have ushered-in -

…an equally focused and vivid 3 minute lightning talk by ESRI re: Social Media for Emergency Management #SMEM

And with great allusions to AirWolf and Yoda, a concise ‘state of the social mapping union’ TEDx Silicon Valley tour de force by one of the preeminent #SMEM and #CrisisMappers visionaries, Patrick Meier

Patrick Meier speaks at TEDx Silicon Valley 2011 from TEDx Silicon Valley on Vimeo.

Free ArcGIS.com resource for understanding the upcoming London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games – http://www.london2012.com

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Lastly, interesting beta Silverlight map tool to note Twitter geo patterns and timeline -

http://apps.arcgis.com/hosted/OnePane/twittertimeline/index.html

The New York City Office of Emergency Management has released a Crowdmap with the help of the Ushahidi team:

http://nycsevereweather.crowdmap.com

http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/nycsevereweather/weather_home.shtml

To submit a formal service request to NYC, use 311. For emergency assistance, call 911. For more information about how the City is responding to the storm, visit:
http://www.nyc.gov/severeweather

Via Direct Relief International -
https://maps.directrelief.org/USA/hpp/index.html

Information links:
National Weather Service http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
New York City hurricane evacuation zone maps http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/get_prepared/prepared_partnerstoolkit.shtml
US Chamber Business and Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) Help Desk https://www.facebook.com/pages/Disaster-Help-Desk-US-Chamber-BCLC/256578991038630
Red Cross live open shelter information at http://app.redcross.org/nss-app/.

Available as an app for the iphone/ipad/ipod at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/american-red-cross-shelter/id419258261?mt=8

State and local government links:

New York City OEM http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/home/home.shtml
North Carolina Division of Emergency Management http://www.nccrimecontrol.org/index2.cfm?a=000003,000010,002050,002063
Virginia Dept. of Emergency Management http://www.vaemergency.com/
Maryland Emergency Management Agency http://www.mema.state.md.us/MEMA2/index.html
New Jersey OEM http://www.ready.nj.gov/
New York State OEM http://www.dhses.ny.gov/

Info4Disasters.org launched it’s new website this past week. A virtual EOC for Hurricane Irene was created last night for sharing information with the public & colleagues.

http://info4disasters.org/hurricane-eoc/irene/

Ushahidi instance

http://irene.tethr.org

Google Earth Outreach http://earth.google.com/outreach
Google Crisis Response, Google.org http://www.google.org

USNG GeoPDF download Flex viewer up and running at

http://greatriver.deltastate.edu/IreneUSNG/index.html

access the download folder at
http://mississippi.deltastate.edu/data/USNG_Atlases

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/surge_images.asp

Army Corps of Engineers Districts have done Hurricane Storm Surge data/maps for their Districts.
Examples are:

http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/nhp/HES/WashingtonDCandNOVA/Current2009StormSurgeMapping/Report/DC&NOVA-StormSurgeMap-Main.pdf

http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/nhp/HES/MD/MarylandWesternShore/Current2006HES/PDFsofInundationMaps/Anne_Arundel_County-StormSurgeMap.pdf

Follow current US Flooding, Tornado, and other declared disasters here -

http://www.fema.gov/news/disasters.fema

and use the following live, ArcGIS Online GIS map created by Nordic Geospatial to monitor the disaster response and recovery efforts -

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http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2010/10/arcgis-10-and-sketchup-8.html

Geospatial Data
UPDATE 20100913
County of San Mateo GIS link and public mapping/FLEX viewer w/parcels

http://gis.co.sanmateo.ca.us/CountyGIS/

Post Blast KML Imagery via GeoEye
http://mw1.google.com/crisisresponse/2010/sanbruno_explosion/SanBruno_GeoEye-1_Imagery.kml

Google Map of Resources

CalEMA
Maps and Photos
http://www.calema.ca.gov/WebPage/oeswebsite.nsf/ClientOESFileLibrary/GISMaps/$file/San_Bruno_Briefing_091010_A.pdf

http://www.calema.ca.gov/WebPage/oeswebsite.nsf/ClientOESFileLibrary/GISMaps/$file/San_Bruno_Briefing_091010_A_noPhotos.pdf

http://www.facebook.com/californiaemafan

Resources for Victims
http://sanbruno.ca.gov/

20100910 630PM Update
http://sanbruno.ca.gov/PDFs/UPDATE%20ON%20THE%20GLENVIEW%20FIRE%203.pdf

Specific Homes and Addresses
http://sanbruno.ca.gov/PDFs/Status%20of%20Homes.pdf

http://www.ktvu.com/slideshow/news/24949310/detail.html

San Bruno Fire courtesy of Digital Globe

Sept 9th Aerial Image of San Bruno Fire by Denny

Where 2.0 2010 in San Jose… Proceedings and Video
http://en.oreilly.com/where2010/public/schedule/proceedings

UPDATE 20100712

Doctors Without Borders / MSF Report – Haiti Six Months Later
http://maps.msf.at/Haiti-Six-Months-Later/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/haiti_six_months_EN_LOW.pdf

& Map (note: Spanish & French versions)
http://maps.msf.at/Haiti-Six-Months-Later/?lang=en

UPDATE 20100423
New World Bank Reconstruction Guide
http://www.preventionweb.net/english/professional/publications/v.php?id=12229

UPDATE 20100302
02.19.10 – USAID-DCHA Haiti Earthquake Mapbook38

International Organization of Migration (IOM) KML and JPEG links
http://groups.google.com/group/cccmhaiti/web/mapping-and-gis?_done=%2Fgroup%2Fcccmhaiti%3F

UPDATE 1500 GMT 20100219 -
ERDAS Data Links and Viewer
http://www.erdas.com/HaitianRelief/tabid/327/Default.aspx

http://apollopro.erdas.com/apollo-client/index.jsp?fullscreen=true

Potential Flooding 10 meter DEM (Digital Elevation Model) – warning: large < 2.8 GB
http://maps.geography.uc.edu/~cgn/maps/Haiti/imagery/waspftp.cis.rit.edu/LiDAR_Rasters_DEM_SEM/DEM/contours/accum_8bit.tif

Resulting Raster Images/Maps from Chris Nicholas at UN-SPIDER
http://maps.geography.uc.edu/~cgn/maps/Haiti/imagery/ASTER_accum.png
2m, Jacmel
http://maps.geography.uc.edu/~cgn/maps/Haiti/imagery/Jacmel_accum.png
2m, Leogane
http://maps.geography.uc.edu/~cgn/maps/Haiti/imagery/Leogane_accumulation.png
10m PaP
http://maps.geography.uc.edu/~cgn/maps/Haiti/imagery/PaP_accum.png

IDP Camps as of Jan 18 with Population Estimates
http://maker.geocommons.com/maps/11262

UPDATE 1500 GMT 20100130 -
The Guardian UK – How to build a crisis reporting system – Lessons learned from Haiti
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jan/29/haiti-crowdsourcing

James Dobbins of RAND testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Haiti
http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT339/

InRelief.org portal with live maps, UAV video, consolidated tweets, etc.
http://haiti.inrelief.org

WIRED Magazine’s DangerRoom covers SDSU’s VizLab and UAV aerial imagery
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/video-fix-navy-spyplane-tracks-haiti-airdrop/

NY Times Overview of pre- and post-quake imagery at significant sites
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/01/14/world/20100114-haiti-imagery.html

WIRED Magazine reviews the power of post-quake LIDAR 3D data (via UN SPIDER )
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/haiti-3d-flyover/all/1

CrisisCommons RSS Project for Haiti
http://wiki.crisiscommons.org/wiki/Haiti_RSS_Feed_Challenge

US PKSOI (Peacekeeping & Stability Operations Institute) SOLLIMS (Stability Operations Lessons Learned Information Management System
http://www.pksoi.org/

UPDATE 1900 GMT 20100126 -

Jan 19-21 3D LIDAR Image of IDP Site Evolution

Wired Magazine’s The Danger Room reports on laptops and GPS clearing the port in PaP
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/01/repairing-port-au-prince-harbor-with-laptops-and-gps/

UN Shelter Cluster (IOM et al)
http://groups.google.com/group/shelterhaiti2010

UNOCHA
http://ochaonline.un.org/

USAID
http://www.usaid.gov/helphaiti/

Haiti Crisis Map – Telescience with all imagery
http://hypercube.telascience.org/haiti/

UPDATE 2100 GMT 20100125 -
Strategic view of rebuilding Haiti from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
http://www.caribbeanconstruction.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=226:haiti-building-mission&catid=5:general-news&Itemid=3

http://www.rics.org/disastermanagement

UPDATE 2100 GMT 20100124 -
Excellent UN portal
http://oneresponse.info/Disasters/Haiti/Pages/default.aspx

UPDATE 1400 GMT 20100121 -
An excellent one stop shop – the Sahana Portal and Geo viewer
http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/
http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/map_viewing_client

UN Cartographic Section Data and Maps
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
ftp://157.150.195.135/Maps/DamageAssessment/

Pacific Disaster Center (Maui, HI) resources
http://www.pdc.org/atlas/

Thompson Reuters AlertNet
http://www.alertnet.org/

USGS
http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/disaster/201001_Earthquake_Haiti/docs_misc/

UN OCHA Haiti
http://oneresponse.info/Disasters/Haiti/MapCenter/Pages/GIS.aspx

UPDATE 1300 GMT 20100120 -
US Navy Topo Map & GEOINT products (PDF, JPG, and GeoPDF formats) are available
http://egeoint.nrlssc.navy.mil/smts/HaitiMaps/

Los Angeles County Fire Search and Rescue updates
http://www.fire.lacounty.gov/haiti.asp

UPDATE 1200 GMT 20100119 -
Ushahidi, iRevolution on CNN
http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/18/ushahidi-fletcher-situation-room-update/

UN SITREPS here
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/VVOS-7ZUJKN?OpenDocument&RSS20&RSS20=FS

All NGO et al partners can join the US DoD SOUTHCOM APAN (All Partners Access Network) to collaborate and get the latest GEOINT and logistics updates – an excellent resource.
http://www.southcom.mil/AppsSC/APAN.php

Logistics Map Resources
http://www.logcluster.org/tools/mapcentre/map-resources

WHO PAHO
http://twitter.com/pahoeoc
http://new.paho.org/disasters/?lang=en

Delta State University in Mississippi (POC Talbot Brooks – tbrooks@deltastate.edu ) has created hi-res imagery PDF maps with MRGS grids and is pushing WMS GIS data feeds
http://mississippi.deltastate.edu/data/haiti/Map_Products/

1000m WMS

http://greatriver.deltastate.edu/arcgis/services/Haiti/Haiti_MGRS_1000m_All/MapServer/WMSServer

1000m WFS

http://greatriver.deltastate.edu/arcgis/services/Haiti/Haiti_MGRS_1000m_All/MapServer/WFSServer

MGRS 100m grids – Port Au Prince

WMS Service

http://greatriver.deltastate.edu/arcgis/services/Haiti/Port_au_Prince_MGRS_100m/MapServer/WMSServer

WFS Service

http://greatriver/arcgis/services/Haiti/Port_au_Prince_MGRS_100m/MapServer/WFSServer

UPDATE 1900 GMT 20100114 –
ESRI ArcGIS Online Data
http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=esri_event&title=Haiti%20Earthquake

Google KML file from DirectAction showing damage levels in central Port-au-Prince
http://www.directrelief.org/uploadedFiles/Google_Earth/Haiti%20Emergency%20Map%20with%20DRI%20Points.kmz

JRC Landslide Risk Map
http://www.gdacs.org/documents/JRC_slopemap_20100114.pdf

ReliefWeb map of damage to Port-au-Prince
http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/prod_free.asp?pid=1407

UPDATE 1800 GMT 20100113 –
New Google KML hi-res (house level), post quake IMAGERY (thank you HIFLD)
CLICK HERE

Geospatial Tools
http://geoss.esri.com/geoviewer/

http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/index.html

https://cop.vdem.virginia.gov/viper/

Data & Maps
http://haiti.sahanafoundation.org/prod/gis/map_service_catalogue

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=EQ-2010-000009-HTI&rc=2

http://www.un-spider.org/?q=page/3166/un-spider-update-haiti-earthquake

http://unosat.web.cern.ch/unosat/asp/prod_free.asp?id=52

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/

http://www.disasterscharter.org/web/charter/home

Other Tools
http://haiti.ushahidi.com/main

Video
Empivot and sustainable housing & shelter that could help inform the rebuilding of Haiti
WHO (OMS) Health Action for Haiti Earthquake Survivors (in French)

UN SPIDER Space Application Matrix

Find more videos like this on AlertNet Editorial

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/us/19terror.html?_r=2&hpw

Note that the analyst is using the JRIC’s enterprise GIS data and advanced predictive analytics to help separate the ‘signals from the noise’… bravo to the JRIC’s FBI, DHS, LA County/City PD/Sheriff, Fire, Public Health, CalEMA, and many other talented staffers.

https://nsgic.webex.com/nsgic/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=TC&rID=13608657&act=pb&rKey=E427BC4FF1336C81

For the entire National States Geographic Information Council WebEx archive, go to …

http://www.nsgic.org/resources/webex_archives.cfm

To view the Virginia ESRI FLEX API-based VIPER Common Operational Picture (COP) application, go to…

https://cop.vdem.virginia.gov/viper/

VIDEO CA Governor addresses the 2008 GTC Conference on California\'s Future

In light of the recent conflagaration in Santa Barbara and the fires of 2007, the following links can help give situational awareness of changing fire perimeters and weather – joel@nordicgeospatial.com

http://www.geomac.gov

http://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/GeoMAC/2009_fire_data/KMLS/ActiveCAFirePerimeters.kml

http://nowcoast.noaa.gov

From an old friend at NGB…
http://geospatialdata.wordpress.com

Cross your fingers on this one and make sure you have a HSIN login from DHS…
https://earth.dhs.gov/dhsearth/
http://www.nsgic.org/hottopics/DHS_Earth.pdf