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

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Horizontal Across the Verticals – Enterprise Geospatial Technology Applied to the Emergency Management, Cultural Resources & Environmental Domains

http://www.ricsamericas.org/event-calendar/horizontal-across-the-verticals/

Please join the RICS Southern California Chapter, Geospatial LA, RAND, the Getty Conservation Institute, and HIFLD members for a collaborative event focusing on the synergies (and cost savings in these lean times) of geospatial technologies used in:

1. Homeland Security & Emergency Management
2. Cultural Resources and Facilities
3. Environmental Considerations

Date: Friday, October 22, 2010
Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: RAND Corporation 1700 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90401

Please RSVP with our host, Mr. Adrian Overton – overton@rand.org / 310.393.0411 ext. 7138 – and note that there is no cost for this event.

Agenda:
Introductions by RICS, RAND, and Geospatial LA
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Dissemination of Research Products in the Application Marketplace: A proposal for turning knowledge into discoverable tools

Daniella Meeker – Associate Information Scientist. RAND Corporation

Bio – Daniella Meeker received her PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from California Institute of Technology in 2005. She completed a fellowship in Health Economics at RAND in 2009 and joined RAND’s staff as an Associate Information Scientist. Her current research includes health economics, machine learning, and social network analysis.

Project Overview – The results of research of the type conducted at RAND are typically disseminated through print media. However, many valuable research products can be developed as services and packaged as “apps” to enhance decision support, analytic methods, and data visualization. I will highlight some examples from GIS and other domains that are active areas of research at RAND. Finally, for discussion I will bring up some of the challenges of translational research and propose some protocols and practices to address some of these challenges.

Online resources – http://www.rand.org/health/centers/bing/fellows.html

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Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA) – Jordan: An Open Source GIS-based Archeological Site Inventory and Management System

David Myers – Project Specialist, Field Projects Department. Getty Conservation Institute

Bio – David Myers is a project specialist in the Getty Conservation Institute’s Field Projects department where he has worked since 2001. He now works on projects developing the Middle Eastern Geodatabase for Antiquities (MEGA) for Jordan and Iraq, preparing a site management and conservation plan for the Valley of the Queens on the West Bank of Luxor, Egypt, on research on applying consensus building and conflict resolution methods to cultural heritage place management, and on building capacity for conservation and management of rock art in the countries of the Southern African subcontinent. He received an M.S in historic preservation in 2000 and an advanced certificate in architectural conservation and site management in 2001, both from the University of Pennsylvania. From 1991 to 1995 he served as a legislative assistant to a member of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Project Overview – The emergence of new digital technologies and rapidly spreading internet access together present possibilities for widely accessible, Web-based national information systems for the inventory and management of heritage sites. The increasing development of Open Source software tools further provides that such systems may be purpose-built, adaptable and extensible to the needs of specific situations, and that once developed they can be available to heritage authorities, which are often poorly funded, without associated licensing or upgrade fees. Working collaboratively with the Jordanian Department of Antiquities (DoA), the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) and World Monuments Fund (WMF) have developed MEGA-Jordan as a tool to inventory, monitor, and help conserve and manage the thousands of archaeological sites in Jordan. MEGA-Jordan allows DoA officials to address needs such as infrastructure and development control and the development of national and regional research strategies. MEGA-Jordan is Web-based, bilingual (Arabic-English), and was developed using state-of-the art and Open Source information technologies. It was designed to be modular and easily extensible, allowing it to evolve with the DoA’s changing institutional requirements and to be adapted by other countries. Work on an Iraq version of MEGA is slated to begin after the Jordanian system is fully deployed, which will include the system’s expansion to contain data for the protection of historic buildings. The GCI and WMF plan to subsequently make the system available for adaptation by other countries.

Online Resources – http://www.getty.edu/conservation/field_projects/jordan/index.html , http://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications/pdf_publications/ & http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/25/arts/design/25getty.html

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Building a Sustainable Enterprise GIS at the Port of Los Angeles

Daniel Elroi – President. NorthSouth GIS LLC

Bio – A GIS consultant with 20 years of GIS implementation and software development, Daniel has been consulting in GIS in the US since 1990. Daniel studied Geography, Cartography, and GIS at UCLA in the early days of commercial GIS, and began his career with one of the first ESRI sites, the City of Los Angeles. He then spent eight years honing his skills as a consultant and software developer in mining, local government, nuclear waste disposal, real estate, pipelines, and engineering, before setting his own course in business in 1998. Since then he has worked with over 100 clients, developing custom software applications and integrating GIS into various clients’ business processes.

Project Overview – The Port of Los Angeles – the largest container port in the US – hired NorthSouth GIS to develop an enterprise-wide GIS. The resulting server infrastructure, geodatabase design and content, and software applications are very solid and based on best-practices. However, it is the way in which the “soft” side of the implementation – people, group dynamics, training, user buy-in, and management participation – that make this implementation stand out and will ultimately determine the project’s long-term success and its sustainability. The presentation will focus on the means taken to accomplish the “soft” side of this successful implementation.

Online Resources – http://www.northsouthgis.com/ & http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/cahinvrug10/papers/user-presentations/nsg_overview_cahinv_rug_01302010.pdf

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Participatory Sensing and Named Data Networking

Jeff Burke – Director, Technology Research Initiatives. UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television & Area Lead, Participatory Sensing. NSF Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)

Bio – Jeff Burke is Director of Technology Research Initiatives for the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT), Adjunct Assistant Professor, and Executive Director of REMAP, a joint research program of TFT and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. REMAP’s core projects investigate the interrelationships among community, culture, and technology and how embedded and mobile computing can support community development and cultural expression. He also helped to form what is now the Participatory Sensing area at the National Science Foundation Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS).

Project Overview – This talk will briefly introduce Participatory Sensing and Named Data Networking, and discuss their intersection and relevance to the geospatial community. Participatory Sensing seeks to enable everyone to use their mobile phones, along with cloud-based computing resources, to safely collect, analyze and share data about things they care about most. Named Data Networking (NDN), also known as Content Centric Networking, replaces the so-called “thin waist” of the internet, the IP protocol, with a name-based protocol that enables communication to be routed based on content names rather than host addresses. It also provides intrinsic content caching and per-packet data signatures. NDN is the subject of a recent National Science Foundation “Future Internet Architecture” award to a group led by UCLA and PARC, in which Participatory Sensing is a driver application for the NDN architecture.

Online Resources – http://research.cens.ucla.edu/
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Closing Remarks and Acknowledgements

FINAL AGENDA

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

UPDATE 20100620
US Border drone flights suspended after comms breakdown
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/06/border-drone-breaks-comms-with-pilot-flights-suspended/

UPDATE 20100607
UN Drone Report & NYTimes article
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/world/03drones.html

http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/14session/A.HRC.14.24.Add6.pdf

UPDATE 20100413
Robert Wright in NYTimes – The Price of Assassination
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/title-2/

UPDATE 20100405
A stepped up campaign after Khost
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/world/asia/05drones.html

UPDATE 20100303
Interactive maps and stats of the drone campaign in AfPak
http://counterterrorism.newamerica.net/drones

Point…
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900SID/MUMA-7ZC99B?OpenDocument

“Of the 44 predator strikes carried out by US drones in the tribal areas of Pakistan over the past 12 months, only five were able to hit their actual targets, killing five key Al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders, but at the cost of over 700 innocent civilians.”

Wired Magazine’s Danger Room exposes unencripted UAV signals being used by Insurgents… sobering
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/12/drone-feds-gave-insurgents-early-warning-report/

NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100131283

& Counterpoint…

RAND Corp’s Seth G. Jones – Take the War to Pakistan
http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/12/04/NYT.html

http://diydrones.com/

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RAND Corp GIS Brown-bag Seminar Announcement

Enterprise GIS (e-GIS) for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Public Safety : Approaches for integrating geo-analytic decision support applications and tools into the enterprise

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Location: The RAND Corporation Headquarters at 1776 Main St., Santa Monica 90401 – rm 1226

Time: 11:00AM-1:30PM PST

Please RSVP to overton@rand.org – non-RAND guests will need to be on our visitors list to be admitted

Come learn about several recent innovative RAND geoweb 2.0 applications in the areas of Emergency Health Preparedness planning and Homeland Security, and discuss and learn about local initiatives and approaches to deploying GIS data and services to support geospatial decision making for public safety and homeland security.

Featured presenters and highlights:

Jeanne Ringel, Sr. Economist at RAND

Mapping Vulnerable Populations – A RAND Health project recently released a demonstration geoweb application to support local health departments in identifying where vulnerable populations may reside in their jurisdictions for strategic planning for public health emergency preparedness. The application uses demographic data from the 2000 census to create high-impact visualizations of where vulnerable populations are located within a jurisdiction. To assist HDs in using the geographic information to improve planning, the tool also contains information on exemplary practices that have been used in other jurisdictions to better address the needs of vulnerable populations in public health preparedness planning and response activities.

Paul Sorensen, Sr. Operations Researcher at RAND

POD Location planning tool – A RAND Health project recently completed work on a demonstration application to support local health departments in evaluating and identifying optimal sites for distribution of oral vaccines from the national stockpile for emergency bio-terrorist attacks or pandemic outbreaks of disease. The application assists decision makers in optimally locating multiple points of distribution or PODs.

Ryan Keefe, PRGS Fellow at RAND

Thomas J. Sullivan, Senior Information Scientist at RAND

RAND Actionable Hotspot Methodology – Presenters will demonstrate a RAND developed space-time “hotspot” decision support application to assist tactical planners in identifying and prioritizing “hotspot” locations for resource allocation/deployment. The application was originally based on the challenges of tactical commanders in Iraq interested in reducing the risk of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), but has applicability to homeland security and law enforcement as well.

Mark Greninger, Geospatial Information Officer, County of Los Angeles

The presentation will describe how LA County is deploying web 2.0 technologies in the form of blogs and GeoRSS feeds, to improve the accuracy and expand deployment of geospatial data in the county. Specifically, this presentation will show how the county is moving to a single entry point for the maintenance of county facilities and services.

Joyce Edson, Police Applications Division Manager for the City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency

The presentation will discuss how the City of Los Angeles is developing a GIS data repository and how ITA is addressing the challenge of providing geospatial information and tools to City and Regional Public Safety users by using web GIS to collaborate with service and data providers; such as the USGS.Shakecast application and it’s integration with existing public safety applications.

Paul Hardwick, Regional GIS Project Manager for Homeland Security Regional Technology Center at the SDSU Research Foundation

The San Diego region has embarked on the planning phase for the San Diego Regional Emergency Geospatial Information Network (SDREGIN). SDREGIN will serve as a regional geospatial data source and connect local jurisdictions, public agencies, and utilities to the regional geospatial database through a network that serves the needs of public safety personnel both on a day-to-day basis and during catastrophic emergency events.