Workshop on the Role of Crisis Informatics in Disaster
Management: The Case of Nepal Earthquake
Kahtmandu, August 9 2015
Pierre Bland, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Volunteer
Coordinator, HOT/OSM Activations
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
The role of HOT in Disaster ManagementInterface between the OSM community and the humanitarian organizations
Flexible coordination with the UN Agencies, international organizations and GIS teams - We adapt rapidly to the particularity of each region and disasterQuick response to support the first responders The BaseMap (road network and villages outline) is the first priority
Imagery Acquisition, Process Hosting: Support from Imagery providers and HOT volunteers
Imports,Tutorials. Validations
Define Tasks with partners, monitor progress
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Haiti, Congo, Mali, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Philippines, Ebola, NepalMostly remotely with the international organizations and local OSM communities to assure the follow-up with the field teams. More and more GIS field teams are familiar with OSM.
- Haiti 2010 Training UN Teams in Haiti
- Dr Congo 2012 A volunteer assures the interface with OCHA in Kinshasa
- Philippines 2013 OSM Philippines assures the interface with the Philippines Gov and the field teams
- Ebola 2014 CartONG GIS specialists assure the interface in the field with MSF
- Nepal 2015 Kathmandu Livig Labs interfaces with the Nepal Gov and the field teams, orgainzes Training sessions
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Coordination Room via Skype was effective a few hours after the earthquake a few hundred participants
Kathmandu Living Labs was operational in the second day of the Response
The Nepal Earthquake Response
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Kathmandu Living Labs
UN agencies
International organizations (MSF, Red Cross, etc)
Digital Humanitarian Network
Imagery providers
Organizations involved in Post-Disaster Assessments- UNOSAT, DigitalGlobe
Various specialists
Coordination of the mapping response
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Pre Disaster: Bing Imagery available for most of the area. HIU provided an image to complete the coverage
Post-Disaster: Activation by the International Charter Satellites re-oriented to quickly provide new images
With the bad meteo of the first week, only images of Kathmandu valley were cloud free . OSM did quickly locate the informal camps from these images.
Support from DigitalGlobe, AirBus Defence & Space, HIU (US State Department), MapBox, Google
Imagery acquisition, process, hosting
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Google CrisisMap to monitor imagery
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Pre-DisasterKathmandu valley was already traced by Kathmandu Living LabsDay 1: Highway Network, mountain paths
Day 4: villages outline, buildings, Helico landing
Day 7: Place names
Post-disaster
Day 4: IDP Camps Kathmandu valley (2 days)
Day 11: IDP camps, damaged villages outside Kathmandu (jobs progressed slowly and are not completed)
Timeline of the response
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
KLL traced Kathmandu years prior to the earthquake
04-25 Pre-Disaster Trace roads
04-28 Post-Disaster Kathmandu + Banepa IDP Camps
04-28 Pre-Disaster Trace Buildings Gorkha, Sindhupalchowk, Dunche, Langtang, etc
05-01 Post-Disaster outside Kathmandu Gorkha
05-01 Import place names
Timeline
04-28 TM1008 Kathmandu IDP Camps
04-28 T1010 Banepa IDP Camps
TM1009 Ghorka buildings buildings
TM1014 Sindhupalchowk buildings
05 TM1018 Second run, trace buildings areas around Kathmand
05-01 TM1019 Import Place names (Private job)
05-01 TM1024 Gorkha DigitalGlobe, 2015-04-29 Damage villages + IDP Camps
05-02 TM1023 Helico landing
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Map and route navigation on the web
Map and route navigation Offline on Small Mobile devices
Edit tools on the Web, Offline, Mobile devices
Poster Paper maps to plan activities
Data exports for GIS analysis
Hourly updates of data
Local support plus training by Kathmandu living labs
Free OSM Products & Services available from the first day
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
The OSM BaseMap + map styles integrated in various products
QuakeMap
Kathmandu Living Labs
USGS Earthquakes Map
OSMAnd offline on mobile devices
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Communications
HOT Email list
Partners and OSM community from around the world follow and discuss, join-in to contribute
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2015_Nepal_earthquake
Wiki Inform the partners and coordinate
mappers actions
General Info, contacts, coordination, etc
Maps & Services available- Exports: Hourly update
How to contribute
Medias updates
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Objects traced by OSM contributors
- gray: previous mapping by KLL of Kathmandu and the major
highways
- green: contributions from april 25
Source: http://osm.cquest.org/nepal/#11/27.6832/85.3528
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Statistics of OSM Contributions
For the first week, an average of 1 million objects edited / day
and 1,000 contributors daily
In comparison, 1 million objects for the first month in Haiti, jan.
2010
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Long tail of contribution
The first 500 contributors contributed to 75% of the edits
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
4,850 contributors (68% of contributors) participated only one day. They contributed to 10% of objects edited.
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Map of contributors classified by experience (nb of changesets) Snapshot first week of activation
Source: Pascal Neishttp://www.resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
The people that contribute 1-2 days are the less experienced,
with often less then 10 changesets (nb of OSM edit sessions)
Experience (Nb of edit changesets): Classification similar to
Pascal Neis but with less categories
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Source: OSMPlanetStats, Pierre Bland
Prior to the earthquake, the Nepal OSM community added 48,000 km of roads. From Apr.25, the international OSM community and various support groups contributed adding an other 60,000 km to trace unclassified roads, tracks and paths in the remote areas.
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Imagery providers reacted quickly and delivered post-disaster imagery daily. But Weather conditions limited access to images of quality
OSM Maps & Services A complete solution is available instantly to respond to emergencies
The HOT Tasking Manager let's coordinate simultaneous contribution of hundred of people
17 millions objects edited in 6 weeks more then for one year of Ebola response
Observations / Lessons learned
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Media coverage and organization of various mapathon brought an unprecedented number of new / unexperienced contributors
Imagery / Tasks monitoring tools should be enhanced to support major Responses
Validation problems where often mentionned. Follow-up of Mapathons and Adapted Learning material to develop
OSM priority is to provide the BaseMap and the Map & Services necessary for the various field teams and GIS specialists.
A workflow should be developped with the Post-assessment agencies for more complementarity, OSM supporting them primarily with the basemap needed for assessments comparisons.
Observations / Lessons learned
OpenstreetMap Response - 2015 Nepal Earthquake
Thanks for all the contributions to this OpenStreetMap Response
Free Imagery, processing, hosting, monitoringBing, International Charter, Space and Major Disasters, DigitalGlobe, AirBus Defence & Space, Humanitarian Information Unit, US State Department , MapBox, Google
HOT coordination team volunteers
The OSM developpers and Export Service providers
The thousand of OSM contributors
OSM Nepal Response, 2015-04-25 to 06-08Profile of contributors and Objects by days of contribution (%)OSMContributorStats% of Objects% of Contributors
10.1039554304327180.680701754385965
20.077360337469910.161964912280702
3-70.2058993409392060.12
8+0.6127848911581660.0373333333333333
OSM Nepal Response, 2015-04-25 to 06-08Days of contributionUsersObjectsObjects / User
148501804667372
2115413429761164
3-785535744144181
8+2661063795039992
Total712517360007 Source: Pierre Bland OSMContributorStats
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