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Maps – Council on Foreign Relations Vaccine-Preventable Disease Maps

Administrator — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:07:18 +0000

Excellent embeddable and downloadable global disease data via the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) -

http://www.cfr.org/interactives/GH_Vaccine_Map/index.html#map

http://www.cfr.org/interactives/GH_Vaccine_Map/index.html#/intro

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Analysis – CrisisMappers Oculus-Azavea, RAND AHS, NPS CAW, ESRI Community Analyst & Palantir

Administrator — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 17:47:38 +0000

UPDATE 20110901
Palantir wins World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer award…
http://reports.weforum.org/technology-pioneers-2012/#videos-f9561ab7ece4fa5830f105556f7e2aac

UPDATE 20110711
From the ESRI #UC, the power of Community Analyst
http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/community-analyst/index.html

UPDATE 20110614
Fareed Zakaria of CNN #GPS and #Google’s Eric Schmidt hold court at Direct Relief International in Santa Barbara and discuss #innovation -

Excellent presentation by Oculus & Azavea specialists on location-time analysis via CrisisMappers -

Webinar 2011: HunchLab: Azavea, Jeremy Heffner from Jen Ziemke on Vimeo.

Ongoing work by the Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Asymmetric Warfare -

Excellent Actionable Hot Spot analysis by RAND’s Dr. Ryan Keefe and Dr. Tom Sullivan

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR768.html

And nimble Palantir Solutions

http://www.palantirtech.com/government/videos/whitevideos

Map – Global Doctor Density

Administrator — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:18:01 +0000

Courtesy of DoctorsOfTheWorld.nl

Also go to
http://www.healthright.org/

And proof that in a developing European nation (Georgia), incorporating strategic health concerns in good for business
http://www.investor.ge/issues/2009_5/04.htm

News – TED statistics, FIFA Map, H1N1 and Health Security

Administrator — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:23:31 +0000

Lessons from H1N1
http://www.emergencymgmt.com/health/Lessons-H1N1-Pandemic.html

2008 Lyon, France – WHO IHR Report on Cities and Public Health Crises
http://www.who.int/ihr/lyon/FRWHO_HSE_IHR_LYON_2009.5.pdf

2010 FIFA South Africa HealthMap
http://www.healthmap.org/fifa/

Hans Rosling @ TED
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen.html

Tools – HealthMap global & South African FIFA World Cup resources

Administrator — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:29:26 +0000

Bravo team HealthMap.org and note the useful South Africa FIFA World Cup map that vividly displays how modern transportation networks and mass gatherings can pose unique public health challenges (for more info on WHO efforts in this regard, go to http://www.who.int/csr/mass_gatherings/en/ & http://www.who.int/csr/resources/publications/swineflu/h1n1_mass_gatherings/en/) …

http://www.healthmap.org/fifa/

http://www.healthmap.org/en/

http://healthmapblog.blogspot.com/

And some perspective from WHO on Athens 2004
http://www.euro.who.int/en/what-we-do/health-topics/environmental-health/urban-health/publications/2007/mass-gatherings-and-public-health-the-experience-of-the-athens-2004-olympic-games

Event – Gov 2.0 Summit, Washington DC Sept. 7-8, 2010

Administrator — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:20:38 +0000

http://www.gov2summit.com/gov2010/

Twitter – http://twitter.com/gov2events

News – World Health Day 2010 & WHO

Administrator — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 10:29:38 +0000

I don`t always eat well or launch myself over urban landscapes, but when I do, I choose WHO… stay healthy my friends.

News – UCLA CENS in NY Times ‘Smart dust’ and the sensor revolution

Administrator — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:39:35 +0000

UPDATE 20100411
The Triumph of the Ordinary Cellphone by ANAND GIRIDHARADAS

http://anand.ly/articles/the-triumph-of-the-ordinary-cellphone & http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/us/10iht-currents.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/business/31unboxed.html?scp=1&sq=sensors%20cens&st=cse

http://research.cens.ucla.edu/

But phones as sensors can also distract from reality – a societal paradigm shift
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35516835/ns/technology_and_science-washington_post/

Tools – Haiti Earthquake response and recovery

Administrator — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:58:10 +0000

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

Event – Nov 16th, 2009 – Columbia Univ. NY – Conference: GIS 3.0: Geospatial Intelligence, Social Data, and the Future of Public Health Preparedness and Response

Administrator — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:06:55 +0000

The National Center for Disaster Preparedness (NCDP) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health

http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/training.htm

Agenda and Videos

David Abramson, PhD Research Director, NCDP
Irwin Redlener, MD, Director, NCDP
Introductory Remarks
(Video: 10 minutes)

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Tony Jebara, PhD, Co-Founder of Sense Networks
Learning Networks of People & Places from Mobile Data
(Video & Slides: 55 minutes)

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Eric Rasmussen, MD, CEO of Innovative Support to Emergencies Diseases and Disasters (InSTEDD)
Geospatial Intelligence, Social Data and Public Health
(Video & Slides: 52 minutes)

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Charles DiMaggio, PhD, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Columbia University
Dr. Snow Meets the Rev. Bayes: Spatial Approaches to Disaster Epidemiology
(Video & Slides: 47 minutes)

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Steven Johnson (Keynote Speaker)
Author of The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – And How it Changed Cities, Science, and the Modern World
(Video: 1 hour, 10 minutes)

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Jeb Weisman, PhD, Chief Information Officer, the Children’s Health Fund
Introductory Remarks for Afternoon Speakers
(Video: 2 minutes)

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Chris Goranson, GIS Director of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Volunteered Geographic Information – Present and Future(Video & Slides: 35 minutes)

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David Abramson, PhD, Research Director, NCDP & Brian Willison, Director of the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM)
A Presentation of the American HotSpots Project
(Video & Slides: 27 minutes)

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Mark Smith, PhD, Epidemiologist, Guilford County Department of Public Health, North Carolina
Rapid Assessment: Mobile GIS for Public Health Response
(Video & Slides: 23 minutes)