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Gulf Oil Spill Digital Mapping and Online Imagery Activity
Organization: Mapping Network/Crisis MappersFacility Type: Info/Hotline
Status: Open
Address:
, LA 00000
| Region: | Gulfcoast |
|---|---|
| County/Parish: |
This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary
Notes:
*CNN - Citizens Monitor Gulf After Oil Spill*
Includes work by CrisisMappers Group members: GrassrootsMapping, Ushahidi,
CrisisCommons.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/06/crowdsource.gulf.oil
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:25:11 -0700 [05:25PM UTC]
From: Jeffrey Johnson
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Re: CC-OilSpill [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print?
Headers: Show All Headers | Show Mailing List Information
Absolutely they will be geocoded and timestamped. We intend to collect
time series of images over the next weeks/months and and these will be
distributed as tiles that can be added as overlays or base maps to
other web map apps that are based on google maps or openlayers or the
like.
They are out shooting today, but mostly training local students to do
the work, we have sent down 10 canons with the chdk, but it is totally
conceivable to do the shooting with mobile phones using an
intevalometer app.
Jeff
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Yobie Benjamin wrote:
[Hide Quoted Text]
Fantastic! Are the pics going to be time and geo coded. It would be very
useful for people evaluating for economic damages... before and after oil
sludge hits the beaches.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius @gmail.com> wrote:
Yep, we have a site where the photos are warped to the ground and
mosaicked.
http://cartagen.org/maps
Jeff
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Yobie Benjamin> wrote:
It does not change the need for naming, tagging and uploading protocols
to
video and photo sites unless you intend to create your own video and
photo
servers/repositories.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jeffrey Johnson >
wrote:
Sorry if I wasnt clear. We are doing this with normal digital cameras
and kites and balloons. This has nothing to do with the mobile app
really.
Jeff
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Yobie Benjamin <yobie @acm.org> wrote:
Can you write the instructions? We would have to combine this with
the mobile apps functions to come up with a "1 pager". Realistically
there are multiple protocols to do this:
What to do if you have an iPhone or Android?
2 megapixel iPhones (non video capable)
3.2 megapixel or above iPhone and Androids (video and still photo
capable)
What to do if you have a stand alone video camera? (applies also to
video uploads from iPhones and Androids)
gulfoilspillvideo is an account I have setup in YOUTUBE and we can
upload all videos to this account BUT we need cc folks to reach out to
YOUTUBE and/or Google to allow unlimited uploads to this account. I am
unaware if Heather or Andrew have a special account in YOUTUBE
What to do if you have a still photo?
I do not have an account in Flickr or Picasa though I can setup an
account. CC (Heather or Andrew) again need to call the selected photo site
and get an unlimited upload account.
It is CRITICAL that EVERY video and still photo be geo-tagged OR have
some location description (closest address is good but at the very least
Parish/County, State (stand alone still or video cameras will not have
geo tag capabilities) and each should have date and time stamps. Tags
would help greatly (some unique hashtag will be better... we don't want 10,000,000 search returns on oiled birds. We'll do better with something like
#CC_oiled_birds... a more knowledgeable person can create those tags)
My 2 cents
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jeffrey Johnson
wrote:
Hi all,
The grassroots mapping folks have deployed to the gulf to begin
working with local groups to low-altitude, low-cost, yet very
high-res aerial imagery capture. They have brought gear and cameras to
distribute, and now have a small army of local students and
volunteers to help, and are setting up training sessions.
http://wiki.grassrootsmapping.org/show/GrassrootsMappingGulfCoastOilSpill
http://grassrootsmapping.org/
They would like to put together a double sided '1 pager' that
explains the process and has contact information etc on it (see below).
Is there a graphic artist or similar on one of these lists that can
assist with this? I can work on the content with someone, but my
design skillz are sorely lacking.
Thanks,
Jeff
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeffrey Warren
Date: Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:41 AM
Subject: [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info
sheet to print?
To: Liz Barry
grassrootsmapping @googlegroups.com,
Nathan Cooke
Hi, all -
New york team, Jeff Johnson, and Nathan Cooke... would you be
willing to help with this?
we're setting up training sessions right now and it would be
wonderful to have a single sheet hand out that covers:
- checklist of needed materials (see the illustration on the
grassrootsmapping wiki)
- quick rundown of how to use the cameras with the CHDK, focus on
keeping batteries charged
- who to ask for help
- where to sign up as a volunteer
- contact information and where to upload the imagery
- where to print out more of the flyer itself
perhaps that's too much for one page. But some way we could have
that hand out to give out at the trainings would be super.
maybe either as a wiki page or a google doc, maybe google doc is
better. that way we can refine it as we learn about what people are
confused about.
best,
jeff
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Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC]
From: France Lamy <flamy @google.com>
To: Crisismappers <crisismappers @googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Greetings,
To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill
catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site
which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing
closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to
YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information
becomes available.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html
Thanks!
France
--
France Lamy, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Google.org
Mountain View
+1 (415) 736-1031 (direct)
+1 (415) 690-5129 (cell)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC]
From: Lars Bromley
To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume
Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well:
http://www.skytruth.org/
Lars
"Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>>
Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on
the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a
conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS).
Lars
Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>>
All:
In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned:
Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of
location-based feeds, including news and videos, here:
http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html
This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data
to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by
ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure.
If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you
might try some MODIS data.
All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil
slick:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For daily images see:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7
This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select
the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click
on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250
meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the
image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a
KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer.
For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg
Joseph Kerski
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D
jkerski@esri.com
Education Manager
ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
1 International Court
Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA
Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237
Fax 303-449-8830
Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield
wrote:
Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here
http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response
good luck!
Matt Merrifield
GIS Manager
The Nature Conservancy of California
37.791, -122.395
415.281.0475 (desk)
415.793.4759 (mobile)
From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU]
On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM
To: SCGIS @LISTSERV.URI.EDU
Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume
Hi all *
Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of
the Deepwater Horizon oil plume?
There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search *
and I*m not quickly finding what I need.
The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data
source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA
MANY MANY THANKS!
Lynn
Lynn Kutner
Conservation Data Analyst
NatureServe
ph: (703) 797-4804
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Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC]
From: Jeffrey Warren
To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline
Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there
with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow.
Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could
connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but
the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude
imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal
role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage...
I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo'
official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to
specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not
really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another
independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking
the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later -
but it's inexpensive to do.
*Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as
would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.*
To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots
Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or
learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org
Best,
Jeff
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote:
I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial
imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org),
but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing
list would love to help.
An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help
empower those who's lives are being affected directly.
On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote:
First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel
like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a
wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in
New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past
tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of
Mexico?
These are the stories that we are mapping:
http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
; via (504) 27 27 OIL
There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill
Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to
elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade:
Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and
support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and
Nathan Morrow.
Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone
In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a
truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just
look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its
best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this
after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a
headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK
YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now.
As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true
regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of
people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that
Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian
Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from
whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general.
Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the
U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of
geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably
accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In
this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as
challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this
is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I
know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in
D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You
learn a lot by being first!
One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high
tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be
utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak
that we can't understand what they are saying.
Item two: Populating the map
We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish
this tomorrow.
Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the
Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the
appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we
are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross
trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes,
though, you just don't have a choice.
Anne
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name: Gulf OilSpill Digital Mapping and Online Imagery Activity -> Gulf Oil Spill Digital Mapping and Online Imagery Activity
notes: *CNN - Citizens Monitor Gulf After Oil Spill* Includes work by CrisisMappers Group members: GrassrootsMapping, Ushahidi, CrisisCommons. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/06/crowdsource.gulf.oil Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:25:11 -0700 [05:25PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Johnson Subject: [CrisisMappers] Re: CC-OilSpill [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print? Headers: Show All Headers | Show Mailing List Information Absolutely they will be geocoded and timestamped. We intend to collect time series of images over the next weeks/months and and these will be distributed as tiles that can be added as overlays or base maps to other web map apps that are based on google maps or openlayers or the like. They are out shooting today, but mostly training local students to do the work, we have sent down 10 canons with the chdk, but it is totally conceivable to do the shooting with mobile phones using an intevalometer app. Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Yobie Benjamin wrote: [Hide Quoted Text] Fantastic! Are the pics going to be time and geo coded. It would be very useful for people evaluating for economic damages... before and after oil sludge hits the beaches. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius@gmail.com> wrote: Yep, we have a site where the photos are warped to the ground and mosaicked. http://cartagen.org/maps Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Yobie Benjamin> wrote: It does not change the need for naming, tagging and uploading protocols to video and photo sites unless you intend to create your own video and photo servers/repositories. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jeffrey Johnson > wrote: Sorry if I wasnt clear. We are doing this with normal digital cameras and kites and balloons. This has nothing to do with the mobile app really. Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Yobie Benjamin <yobie@acm.org> wrote: Can you write the instructions? We would have to combine this with the mobile apps functions to come up with a "1 pager". Realistically there are multiple protocols to do this: What to do if you have an iPhone or Android? 2 megapixel iPhones (non video capable) 3.2 megapixel or above iPhone and Androids (video and still photo capable) What to do if you have a stand alone video camera? (applies also to video uploads from iPhones and Androids) gulfoilspillvideo is an account I have setup in YOUTUBE and we can upload all videos to this account BUT we need cc folks to reach out to YOUTUBE and/or Google to allow unlimited uploads to this account. I am unaware if Heather or Andrew have a special account in YOUTUBE What to do if you have a still photo? I do not have an account in Flickr or Picasa though I can setup an account. CC (Heather or Andrew) again need to call the selected photo site and get an unlimited upload account. It is CRITICAL that EVERY video and still photo be geo-tagged OR have some location description (closest address is good but at the very least Parish/County, State (stand alone still or video cameras will not have geo tag capabilities) and each should have date and time stamps. Tags would help greatly (some unique hashtag will be better... we don't want 10,000,000 search returns on oiled birds. We'll do better with something like #CC_oiled_birds... a more knowledgeable person can create those tags) My 2 cents On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: Hi all, The grassroots mapping folks have deployed to the gulf to begin working with local groups to low-altitude, low-cost, yet very high-res aerial imagery capture. They have brought gear and cameras to distribute, and now have a small army of local students and volunteers to help, and are setting up training sessions. http://wiki.grassrootsmapping.org/show/GrassrootsMappingGulfCoastOilSpill http://grassrootsmapping.org/ They would like to put together a double sided '1 pager' that explains the process and has contact information etc on it (see below). Is there a graphic artist or similar on one of these lists that can assist with this? I can work on the content with someone, but my design skillz are sorely lacking. Thanks, Jeff ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Warren Date: Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:41 AM Subject: [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print? To: Liz Barry grassrootsmapping@googlegroups.com, Nathan Cooke Hi, all - New york team, Jeff Johnson, and Nathan Cooke... would you be willing to help with this? we're setting up training sessions right now and it would be wonderful to have a single sheet hand out that covers: - checklist of needed materials (see the illustration on the grassrootsmapping wiki) - quick rundown of how to use the cameras with the CHDK, focus on keeping batteries charged - who to ask for help - where to sign up as a volunteer - contact information and where to upload the imagery - where to print out more of the flyer itself perhaps that's too much for one page. But some way we could have that hand out to give out at the trainings would be super. maybe either as a wiki page or a google doc, maybe google doc is better. that way we can refine it as we learn about what people are confused about. best, jeff -- Yobie Benjamin yobie at acm.org Mobile/Text Msgs: 347-878-3262 http://bit.ly/bI65Gw Skype - yobieb Twitter - @yobie AOL IM & Yahoo IM - yobie Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC] From: France Lamy <flamy@google.com> To: Crisismappers <crisismappers@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Greetings, To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information becomes available. http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html Thanks! France -- France Lamy, Ph.D. Program Manager Google.org Mountain View +1 (415) 736-1031 (direct) +1 (415) 690-5129 (cell) Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC] From: Lars Bromley To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well: http://www.skytruth.org/ Lars "Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>> Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS). Lars Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>> All: In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned: Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of location-based feeds, including news and videos, here: http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure. If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you might try some MODIS data. All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil slick: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ For daily images see: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7 This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250 meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer. For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg Joseph Kerski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D jkerski@esri.com Education Manager ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 1 International Court Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237 Fax 303-449-8830 Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield wrote: Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response good luck! Matt Merrifield GIS Manager The Nature Conservancy of California 37.791, -122.395 415.281.0475 (desk) 415.793.4759 (mobile) From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume Hi all * Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume? There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search * and I*m not quickly finding what I need. The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA MANY MANY THANKS! Lynn Lynn Kutner Conservation Data Analyst NatureServe ph: (703) 797-4804 ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Warren To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow. Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage... I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo' official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later - but it's inexpensive to do. *Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.* To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org Best, Jeff On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org), but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing list would love to help. An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help empower those who's lives are being affected directly. On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote: First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico? These are the stories that we are mapping: http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ ; via (504) 27 27 OIL There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and Nathan Morrow. Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now. As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general. Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You learn a lot by being first! One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak that we can't understand what they are saying. Item two: Populating the map We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish this tomorrow. Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes, though, you just don't have a choice. Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CrisisMappers" group. To post to this group, send email to crisismappers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to crisismappers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<crisismappers%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en. -> *CNN - Citizens Monitor Gulf After Oil Spill* Includes work by CrisisMappers Group members: GrassrootsMapping, Ushahidi, CrisisCommons. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/06/crowdsource.gulf.oil Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:25:11 -0700 [05:25PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Johnson Subject: [CrisisMappers] Re: CC-OilSpill [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print? Headers: Show All Headers | Show Mailing List Information Absolutely they will be geocoded and timestamped. We intend to collect time series of images over the next weeks/months and and these will be distributed as tiles that can be added as overlays or base maps to other web map apps that are based on google maps or openlayers or the like. They are out shooting today, but mostly training local students to do the work, we have sent down 10 canons with the chdk, but it is totally conceivable to do the shooting with mobile phones using an intevalometer app. Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Yobie Benjamin wrote: [Hide Quoted Text] Fantastic! Are the pics going to be time and geo coded. It would be very useful for people evaluating for economic damages... before and after oil sludge hits the beaches. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius @gmail.com> wrote: Yep, we have a site where the photos are warped to the ground and mosaicked. http://cartagen.org/maps Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Yobie Benjamin> wrote: It does not change the need for naming, tagging and uploading protocols to video and photo sites unless you intend to create your own video and photo servers/repositories. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jeffrey Johnson > wrote: Sorry if I wasnt clear. We are doing this with normal digital cameras and kites and balloons. This has nothing to do with the mobile app really. Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Yobie Benjamin <yobie @acm.org> wrote: Can you write the instructions? We would have to combine this with the mobile apps functions to come up with a "1 pager". Realistically there are multiple protocols to do this: What to do if you have an iPhone or Android? 2 megapixel iPhones (non video capable) 3.2 megapixel or above iPhone and Androids (video and still photo capable) What to do if you have a stand alone video camera? (applies also to video uploads from iPhones and Androids) gulfoilspillvideo is an account I have setup in YOUTUBE and we can upload all videos to this account BUT we need cc folks to reach out to YOUTUBE and/or Google to allow unlimited uploads to this account. I am unaware if Heather or Andrew have a special account in YOUTUBE What to do if you have a still photo? I do not have an account in Flickr or Picasa though I can setup an account. CC (Heather or Andrew) again need to call the selected photo site and get an unlimited upload account. It is CRITICAL that EVERY video and still photo be geo-tagged OR have some location description (closest address is good but at the very least Parish/County, State (stand alone still or video cameras will not have geo tag capabilities) and each should have date and time stamps. Tags would help greatly (some unique hashtag will be better... we don't want 10,000,000 search returns on oiled birds. We'll do better with something like #CC_oiled_birds... a more knowledgeable person can create those tags) My 2 cents On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: Hi all, The grassroots mapping folks have deployed to the gulf to begin working with local groups to low-altitude, low-cost, yet very high-res aerial imagery capture. They have brought gear and cameras to distribute, and now have a small army of local students and volunteers to help, and are setting up training sessions. http://wiki.grassrootsmapping.org/show/GrassrootsMappingGulfCoastOilSpill http://grassrootsmapping.org/ They would like to put together a double sided '1 pager' that explains the process and has contact information etc on it (see below). Is there a graphic artist or similar on one of these lists that can assist with this? I can work on the content with someone, but my design skillz are sorely lacking. Thanks, Jeff ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Warren Date: Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:41 AM Subject: [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print? To: Liz Barry grassrootsmapping @googlegroups.com, Nathan Cooke Hi, all - New york team, Jeff Johnson, and Nathan Cooke... would you be willing to help with this? we're setting up training sessions right now and it would be wonderful to have a single sheet hand out that covers: - checklist of needed materials (see the illustration on the grassrootsmapping wiki) - quick rundown of how to use the cameras with the CHDK, focus on keeping batteries charged - who to ask for help - where to sign up as a volunteer - contact information and where to upload the imagery - where to print out more of the flyer itself perhaps that's too much for one page. But some way we could have that hand out to give out at the trainings would be super. maybe either as a wiki page or a google doc, maybe google doc is better. that way we can refine it as we learn about what people are confused about. best, jeff -- Yobie Benjamin yobie at acm.org Mobile/Text Msgs: 347-878-3262 http://bit.ly/bI65Gw Skype - yobieb Twitter - @yobie AOL IM & Yahoo IM - yobie Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC] From: France Lamy <flamy @google.com> To: Crisismappers <crisismappers @googlegroups.com> Reply-To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Greetings, To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information becomes available. http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html Thanks! France -- France Lamy, Ph.D. Program Manager Google.org Mountain View +1 (415) 736-1031 (direct) +1 (415) 690-5129 (cell) Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC] From: Lars Bromley To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well: http://www.skytruth.org/ Lars "Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>> Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS). Lars Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>> All: In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned: Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of location-based feeds, including news and videos, here: http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure. If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you might try some MODIS data. All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil slick: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ For daily images see: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7 This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250 meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer. For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg Joseph Kerski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D jkerski@esri.com Education Manager ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 1 International Court Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237 Fax 303-449-8830 Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield wrote: Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response good luck! Matt Merrifield GIS Manager The Nature Conservancy of California 37.791, -122.395 415.281.0475 (desk) 415.793.4759 (mobile) From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM To: SCGIS @LISTSERV.URI.EDU Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume Hi all * Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume? There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search * and I*m not quickly finding what I need. The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA MANY MANY THANKS! Lynn Lynn Kutner Conservation Data Analyst NatureServe ph: (703) 797-4804 ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV @LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV @LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Warren To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow. Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage... I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo' official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later - but it's inexpensive to do. *Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.* To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org Best, Jeff On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org), but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing list would love to help. An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help empower those who's lives are being affected directly. On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote: First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico? These are the stories that we are mapping: http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ ; via (504) 27 27 OIL There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and Nathan Morrow. Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now. As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general. Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You learn a lot by being first! One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak that we can't understand what they are saying. Item two: Populating the map We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish this tomorrow. Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes, though, you just don't have a choice. Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CrisisMappers" group. To post to this group, send email to crisismappers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to crisismappers+unsubscribe @googlegroups.com<crisismappers%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en.
(show/hide changes)notes: *CNN - Citizens Monitor Gulf After Oil Spill* Includes work by CrisisMappers Group members: GrassrootsMapping, Ushahidi, CrisisCommons. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/06/crowdsource.gulf.oil Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:25:11 -0700 [05:25PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Johnson Subject: [CrisisMappers] Re: CC-OilSpill [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print? Headers: Show All Headers | Show Mailing List Information Absolutely they will be geocoded and timestamped. We intend to collect time series of images over the next weeks/months and and these will be distributed as tiles that can be added as overlays or base maps to other web map apps that are based on google maps or openlayers or the like. They are out shooting today, but mostly training local students to do the work, we have sent down 10 canons with the chdk, but it is totally conceivable to do the shooting with mobile phones using an intevalometer app. Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Yobie Benjamin wrote: [Hide Quoted Text] Fantastic! Are the pics going to be time and geo coded. It would be very useful for people evaluating for economic damages... before and after oil sludge hits the beaches. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius@gmail.com> wrote: Yep, we have a site where the photos are warped to the ground and mosaicked. http://cartagen.org/maps Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Yobie Benjamin> wrote: It does not change the need for naming, tagging and uploading protocols to video and photo sites unless you intend to create your own video and photo servers/repositories. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jeffrey Johnson > wrote: Sorry if I wasnt clear. We are doing this with normal digital cameras and kites and balloons. This has nothing to do with the mobile app really. Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Yobie Benjamin <yobie@acm.org> wrote: Can you write the instructions? We would have to combine this with the mobile apps functions to come up with a "1 pager". Realistically there are multiple protocols to do this: What to do if you have an iPhone or Android? 2 megapixel iPhones (non video capable) 3.2 megapixel or above iPhone and Androids (video and still photo capable) What to do if you have a stand alone video camera? (applies also to video uploads from iPhones and Androids) gulfoilspillvideo is an account I have setup in YOUTUBE and we can upload all videos to this account BUT we need cc folks to reach out to YOUTUBE and/or Google to allow unlimited uploads to this account. I am unaware if Heather or Andrew have a special account in YOUTUBE What to do if you have a still photo? I do not have an account in Flickr or Picasa though I can setup an account. CC (Heather or Andrew) again need to call the selected photo site and get an unlimited upload account. It is CRITICAL that EVERY video and still photo be geo-tagged OR have some location description (closest address is good but at the very least Parish/County, State (stand alone still or video cameras will not have geo tag capabilities) and each should have date and time stamps. Tags would help greatly (some unique hashtag will be better... we don't want 10,000,000 search returns on oiled birds. We'll do better with something like #CC_oiled_birds... a more knowledgeable person can create those tags) My 2 cents On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: Hi all, The grassroots mapping folks have deployed to the gulf to begin working with local groups to low-altitude, low-cost, yet very high-res aerial imagery capture. They have brought gear and cameras to distribute, and now have a small army of local students and volunteers to help, and are setting up training sessions. http://wiki.grassrootsmapping.org/show/GrassrootsMappingGulfCoastOilSpill http://grassrootsmapping.org/ They would like to put together a double sided '1 pager' that explains the process and has contact information etc on it (see below). Is there a graphic artist or similar on one of these lists that can assist with this? I can work on the content with someone, but my design skillz are sorely lacking. Thanks, Jeff ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Warren Date: Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:41 AM Subject: [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print? To: Liz Barry grassrootsmapping@googlegroups.com, Nathan Cooke Hi, all - New york team, Jeff Johnson, and Nathan Cooke... would you be willing to help with this? we're setting up training sessions right now and it would be wonderful to have a single sheet hand out that covers: - checklist of needed materials (see the illustration on the grassrootsmapping wiki) - quick rundown of how to use the cameras with the CHDK, focus on keeping batteries charged - who to ask for help - where to sign up as a volunteer - contact information and where to upload the imagery - where to print out more of the flyer itself perhaps that's too much for one page. But some way we could have that hand out to give out at the trainings would be super. maybe either as a wiki page or a google doc, maybe google doc is better. that way we can refine it as we learn about what people are confused about. best, jeff -- Yobie Benjamin yobie at acm.org Mobile/Text Msgs: 347-878-3262 http://bit.ly/bI65Gw Skype - yobieb Twitter - @yobie AOL IM & Yahoo IM - yobie Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC] From: France Lamy <flamy@google.com> To: Crisismappers <crisismappers@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Greetings, To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information becomes available. http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html Thanks! France -- France Lamy, Ph.D. Program Manager Google.org Mountain View +1 (415) 736-1031 (direct) +1 (415) 690-5129 (cell) Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC] From: Lars Bromley To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well: http://www.skytruth.org/ Lars "Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>> Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS). Lars Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>> All: In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned: Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of location-based feeds, including news and videos, here: http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure. If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you might try some MODIS data. All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil slick: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ For daily images see: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7 This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250 meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer. For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg Joseph Kerski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D jkerski@esri.com Education Manager ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 1 International Court Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237 Fax 303-449-8830 Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield wrote: Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response good luck! Matt Merrifield GIS Manager The Nature Conservancy of California 37.791, -122.395 415.281.0475 (desk) 415.793.4759 (mobile) From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume Hi all * Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume? There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search * and I*m not quickly finding what I need. The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA MANY MANY THANKS! Lynn Lynn Kutner Conservation Data Analyst NatureServe ph: (703) 797-4804 ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Warren To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow. Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage... I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo' official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later - but it's inexpensive to do. *Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.* To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org Best, Jeff On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org), but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing list would love to help. An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help empower those who's lives are being affected directly. On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote: First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico? These are the stories that we are mapping: http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ ; via (504) 27 27 OIL There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and Nathan Morrow. Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now. As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general. Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You learn a lot by being first! One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak that we can't understand what they are saying. Item two: Populating the map We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish this tomorrow. Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes, though, you just don't have a choice. Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CrisisMappers" group. To post to this group, send email to crisismappers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to crisismappers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<crisismappers%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en. -> *CNN - Citizens Monitor Gulf After Oil Spill* Includes work by CrisisMappers Group members: GrassrootsMapping, Ushahidi, CrisisCommons. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/06/crowdsource.gulf.oil Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:25:11 -0700 [05:25PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Johnson Subject: [CrisisMappers] Re: CC-OilSpill [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print? Headers: Show All Headers | Show Mailing List Information Absolutely they will be geocoded and timestamped. We intend to collect time series of images over the next weeks/months and and these will be distributed as tiles that can be added as overlays or base maps to other web map apps that are based on google maps or openlayers or the like. They are out shooting today, but mostly training local students to do the work, we have sent down 10 canons with the chdk, but it is totally conceivable to do the shooting with mobile phones using an intevalometer app. Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Yobie Benjamin wrote: [Hide Quoted Text] Fantastic! Are the pics going to be time and geo coded. It would be very useful for people evaluating for economic damages... before and after oil sludge hits the beaches. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius @gmail.com> wrote: Yep, we have a site where the photos are warped to the ground and mosaicked. http://cartagen.org/maps Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Yobie Benjamin> wrote: It does not change the need for naming, tagging and uploading protocols to video and photo sites unless you intend to create your own video and photo servers/repositories. On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jeffrey Johnson > wrote: Sorry if I wasnt clear. We are doing this with normal digital cameras and kites and balloons. This has nothing to do with the mobile app really. Jeff On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Yobie Benjamin <yobie @acm.org> wrote: Can you write the instructions? We would have to combine this with the mobile apps functions to come up with a "1 pager". Realistically there are multiple protocols to do this: What to do if you have an iPhone or Android? 2 megapixel iPhones (non video capable) 3.2 megapixel or above iPhone and Androids (video and still photo capable) What to do if you have a stand alone video camera? (applies also to video uploads from iPhones and Androids) gulfoilspillvideo is an account I have setup in YOUTUBE and we can upload all videos to this account BUT we need cc folks to reach out to YOUTUBE and/or Google to allow unlimited uploads to this account. I am unaware if Heather or Andrew have a special account in YOUTUBE What to do if you have a still photo? I do not have an account in Flickr or Picasa though I can setup an account. CC (Heather or Andrew) again need to call the selected photo site and get an unlimited upload account. It is CRITICAL that EVERY video and still photo be geo-tagged OR have some location description (closest address is good but at the very least Parish/County, State (stand alone still or video cameras will not have geo tag capabilities) and each should have date and time stamps. Tags would help greatly (some unique hashtag will be better... we don't want 10,000,000 search returns on oiled birds. We'll do better with something like #CC_oiled_birds... a more knowledgeable person can create those tags) My 2 cents On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote: Hi all, The grassroots mapping folks have deployed to the gulf to begin working with local groups to low-altitude, low-cost, yet very high-res aerial imagery capture. They have brought gear and cameras to distribute, and now have a small army of local students and volunteers to help, and are setting up training sessions. http://wiki.grassrootsmapping.org/show/GrassrootsMappingGulfCoastOilSpill http://grassrootsmapping.org/ They would like to put together a double sided '1 pager' that explains the process and has contact information etc on it (see below). Is there a graphic artist or similar on one of these lists that can assist with this? I can work on the content with someone, but my design skillz are sorely lacking. Thanks, Jeff ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jeffrey Warren Date: Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:41 AM Subject: [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print? To: Liz Barry grassrootsmapping @googlegroups.com, Nathan Cooke Hi, all - New york team, Jeff Johnson, and Nathan Cooke... would you be willing to help with this? we're setting up training sessions right now and it would be wonderful to have a single sheet hand out that covers: - checklist of needed materials (see the illustration on the grassrootsmapping wiki) - quick rundown of how to use the cameras with the CHDK, focus on keeping batteries charged - who to ask for help - where to sign up as a volunteer - contact information and where to upload the imagery - where to print out more of the flyer itself perhaps that's too much for one page. But some way we could have that hand out to give out at the trainings would be super. maybe either as a wiki page or a google doc, maybe google doc is better. that way we can refine it as we learn about what people are confused about. best, jeff -- Yobie Benjamin yobie at acm.org Mobile/Text Msgs: 347-878-3262 http://bit.ly/bI65Gw Skype - yobieb Twitter - @yobie AOL IM & Yahoo IM - yobie Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC] From: France Lamy <flamy @google.com> To: Crisismappers <crisismappers @googlegroups.com> Reply-To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Greetings, To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information becomes available. http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html Thanks! France -- France Lamy, Ph.D. Program Manager Google.org Mountain View +1 (415) 736-1031 (direct) +1 (415) 690-5129 (cell) Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC] From: Lars Bromley To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well: http://www.skytruth.org/ Lars "Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>> Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS). Lars Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>> All: In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned: Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of location-based feeds, including news and videos, here: http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure. If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you might try some MODIS data. All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil slick: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ For daily images see: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7 This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250 meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer. For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg Joseph Kerski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D jkerski@esri.com Education Manager ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 1 International Court Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237 Fax 303-449-8830 Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield wrote: Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response good luck! Matt Merrifield GIS Manager The Nature Conservancy of California 37.791, -122.395 415.281.0475 (desk) 415.793.4759 (mobile) From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM To: SCGIS @LISTSERV.URI.EDU Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume Hi all * Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume? There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search * and I*m not quickly finding what I need. The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA MANY MANY THANKS! Lynn Lynn Kutner Conservation Data Analyst NatureServe ph: (703) 797-4804 ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV @LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV @LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Warren To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers @googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow. Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage... I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo' official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later - but it's inexpensive to do. *Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.* To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org Best, Jeff On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org), but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing list would love to help. An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help empower those who's lives are being affected directly. On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote: First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico? These are the stories that we are mapping: http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ ; via (504) 27 27 OIL There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and Nathan Morrow. Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now. As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general. Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You learn a lot by being first! One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak that we can't understand what they are saying. Item two: Populating the map We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish this tomorrow. Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes, though, you just don't have a choice. Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CrisisMappers" group. To post to this group, send email to crisismappers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to crisismappers+unsubscribe @googlegroups.com<crisismappers%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en.
Fri May 07 18:47:54 +0000 2010 by tfri:
notes: *CNN - Citizens Monitor Gulf After Oil Spill*
Includes work by CrisisMappers Group members: GrassrootsMapping, Ushahidi,
CrisisCommons.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/06/crowdsource.gulf.oil
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC]
From: France Lamy <flamy@google.com>
To: Crisismappers <crisismappers@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Greetings,
To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill
catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site
which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing
closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to
YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information
becomes available.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html
Thanks!
France
--
France Lamy, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Google.org
Mountain View
+1 (415) 736-1031 (direct)
+1 (415) 690-5129 (cell)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC]
From: Lars Bromley
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume
Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well:
http://www.skytruth.org/
Lars
"Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>>
Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on
the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a
conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS).
Lars
Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>>
All:
In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned:
Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of
location-based feeds, including news and videos, here:
http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html
This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data
to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by
ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure.
If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you
might try some MODIS data.
All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil
slick:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For daily images see:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7
This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select
the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click
on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250
meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the
image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a
KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer.
For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg
Joseph Kerski
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D
jkerski@esri.com
Education Manager
ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
1 International Court
Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA
Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237
Fax 303-449-8830
Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield
wrote:
Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here
http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response
good luck!
Matt Merrifield
GIS Manager
The Nature Conservancy of California
37.791, -122.395
415.281.0475 (desk)
415.793.4759 (mobile)
From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU]
On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM
To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU
Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume
Hi all *
Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of
the Deepwater Horizon oil plume?
There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search *
and I*m not quickly finding what I need.
The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data
source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA
MANY MANY THANKS!
Lynn
Lynn Kutner
Conservation Data Analyst
NatureServe
ph: (703) 797-4804
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Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC]
From: Jeffrey Warren
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline
Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there
with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow.
Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could
connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but
the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude
imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal
role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage...
I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo'
official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to
specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not
really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another
independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking
the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later -
but it's inexpensive to do.
*Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as
would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.*
To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots
Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or
learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org
Best,
Jeff
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote:
I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial
imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org),
but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing
list would love to help.
An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help
empower those who's lives are being affected directly.
On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote:
First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel
like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a
wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in
New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past
tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of
Mexico?
These are the stories that we are mapping:
http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
; via (504) 27 27 OIL
There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill
Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to
elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade:
Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and
support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and
Nathan Morrow.
Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone
In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a
truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just
look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its
best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this
after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a
headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK
YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now.
As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true
regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of
people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that
Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian
Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from
whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general.
Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the
U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of
geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably
accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In
this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as
challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this
is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I
know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in
D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You
learn a lot by being first!
One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high
tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be
utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak
that we can't understand what they are saying.
Item two: Populating the map
We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish
this tomorrow.
Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the
Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the
appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we
are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross
trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes,
though, you just don't have a choice.
Anne
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-> *CNN - Citizens Monitor Gulf After Oil Spill*
Includes work by CrisisMappers Group members: GrassrootsMapping, Ushahidi,
CrisisCommons.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/06/crowdsource.gulf.oil
Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 10:25:11 -0700 [05:25PM UTC]
From: Jeffrey Johnson
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Re: CC-OilSpill [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info sheet to print?
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Absolutely they will be geocoded and timestamped. We intend to collect
time series of images over the next weeks/months and and these will be
distributed as tiles that can be added as overlays or base maps to
other web map apps that are based on google maps or openlayers or the
like.
They are out shooting today, but mostly training local students to do
the work, we have sent down 10 canons with the chdk, but it is totally
conceivable to do the shooting with mobile phones using an
intevalometer app.
Jeff
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Yobie Benjamin wrote:
[Hide Quoted Text]
Fantastic! Are the pics going to be time and geo coded. It would be very
useful for people evaluating for economic damages... before and after oil
sludge hits the beaches.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Jeffrey Johnson <ortelius@gmail.com> wrote:
Yep, we have a site where the photos are warped to the ground and
mosaicked.
http://cartagen.org/maps
Jeff
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Yobie Benjamin> wrote:
It does not change the need for naming, tagging and uploading protocols
to
video and photo sites unless you intend to create your own video and
photo
servers/repositories.
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Jeffrey Johnson >
wrote:
Sorry if I wasnt clear. We are doing this with normal digital cameras
and kites and balloons. This has nothing to do with the mobile app
really.
Jeff
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Yobie Benjamin <yobie@acm.org> wrote:
Can you write the instructions? We would have to combine this with
the
mobile apps functions to come up with a "1 pager". Realistically
there
are
multiple protocols to do this:
What to do if you have an iPhone or Android?
2 megapixel iPhones (non video capable)
3.2 megapixel or above iPhone and Androids (video and still photo
capable)
What to do if you have a stand alone video camera? (applies also to
video
uploads from iPhones and Androids)
gulfoilspillvideo is an account I have setup in YOUTUBE and we can
upload
all videos to this account BUT we need cc folks to reach out to
YOUTUBE
and/or Google to allow unlimited uploads to this account. I am
unaware
if
Heather or Andrew have a special account in YOUTUBE
What to do if you have a still photo?
I do not have an account in Flickr or Picasa though I can setup an
account.
CC (Heather or Andrew) again need to call the selected photo site
and
get
an unlimited upload account.
It is CRITICAL that EVERY video and still photo be geo-tagged OR have
some
location description (closest address is good but at the very least
Parish/County, State (stand alone still or video cameras will not
have
geo
tag capabilities) and each should have date and time stamps. Tags
would help greatly (some unique hashtag will be better... we don't want 10,000,000 search returns on oiled birds. We'll do better with something like
#CC_oiled_birds... a more knowledgeable person can create those tags)
My 2 cents
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Jeffrey Johnson
wrote:
Hi all,
The grassroots mapping folks have deployed to the gulf to begin
working with local groups to low-altitude, low-cost, yet very
high-res aerial imagery capture. They have brought gear and cameras to
distribute, and now have a small army of local students and
volunteers to help, and are setting up training sessions.
http://wiki.grassrootsmapping.org/show/GrassrootsMappingGulfCoastOilSpill
http://grassrootsmapping.org/
They would like to put together a double sided '1 pager' that
explains
the process and has contact information etc on it (see below).
Is there a graphic artist or similar on one of these lists that can
assist with this? I can work on the content with someone, but my
design skillz are sorely lacking.
Thanks,
Jeff
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeffrey Warren
Date: Fri, May 7, 2010 at 8:41 AM
Subject: [grassrootsmapping] oil slick: can we make a 1-page info
sheet to print?
To: Liz Barry
grassrootsmapping@googlegroups.com,
Nathan Cooke
Hi, all -
New york team, Jeff Johnson, and Nathan Cooke... would you be
willing to help with this?
we're setting up training sessions right now and it would be
wonderful to have a single sheet hand out that covers:
- checklist of needed materials (see the illustration on the
grassrootsmapping wiki)
- quick rundown of how to use the cameras with the CHDK, focus on
keeping batteries charged
- who to ask for help
- where to sign up as a volunteer
- contact information and where to upload the imagery
- where to print out more of the flyer itself
perhaps that's too much for one page. But some way we could have
that hand out to give out at the trainings would be super.
maybe either as a wiki page or a google doc, maybe google doc is
better. that way we can refine it as we learn about what people are
confused about.
best,
jeff
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Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC]
From: France Lamy <flamy@google.com>
To: Crisismappers <crisismappers@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Greetings,
To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill
catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site
which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing
closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to
YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information
becomes available.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html
Thanks!
France
--
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Program Manager
Google.org
Mountain View
+1 (415) 736-1031 (direct)
+1 (415) 690-5129 (cell)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC]
From: Lars Bromley
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume
Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well:
http://www.skytruth.org/
Lars
"Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>>
Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on
the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a
conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS).
Lars
Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>>
All:
In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned:
Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of
location-based feeds, including news and videos, here:
http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html
This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data
to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by
ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure.
If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you
might try some MODIS data.
All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil
slick:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For daily images see:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7
This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select
the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click
on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250
meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the
image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a
KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer.
For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg
Joseph Kerski
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D
jkerski@esri.com
Education Manager
ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
1 International Court
Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA
Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237
Fax 303-449-8830
Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield
wrote:
Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here
http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response
good luck!
Matt Merrifield
GIS Manager
The Nature Conservancy of California
37.791, -122.395
415.281.0475 (desk)
415.793.4759 (mobile)
From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU]
On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM
To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU
Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume
Hi all *
Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of
the Deepwater Horizon oil plume?
There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search *
and I*m not quickly finding what I need.
The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data
source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA
MANY MANY THANKS!
Lynn
Lynn Kutner
Conservation Data Analyst
NatureServe
ph: (703) 797-4804
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Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC]
From: Jeffrey Warren
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline
Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there
with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow.
Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could
connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but
the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude
imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal
role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage...
I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo'
official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to
specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not
really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another
independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking
the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later -
but it's inexpensive to do.
*Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as
would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.*
To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots
Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or
learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org
Best,
Jeff
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote:
I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial
imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org),
but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing
list would love to help.
An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help
empower those who's lives are being affected directly.
On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote:
First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel
like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a
wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in
New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past
tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of
Mexico?
These are the stories that we are mapping:
http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
; via (504) 27 27 OIL
There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill
Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to
elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade:
Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and
support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and
Nathan Morrow.
Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone
In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a
truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just
look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its
best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this
after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a
headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK
YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now.
As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true
regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of
people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that
Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian
Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from
whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general.
Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the
U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of
geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably
accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In
this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as
challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this
is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I
know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in
D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You
learn a lot by being first!
One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high
tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be
utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak
that we can't understand what they are saying.
Item two: Populating the map
We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish
this tomorrow.
Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the
Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the
appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we
are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross
trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes,
though, you just don't have a choice.
Anne
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notes: Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC]
From: France Lamy <flamy@google.com>
To: Crisismappers <crisismappers@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Greetings,
To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill
catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site
which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing
closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to
YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information
becomes available.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html
Thanks!
France
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Program Manager
Google.org
Mountain View
+1 (415) 736-1031 (direct)
+1 (415) 690-5129 (cell)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC]
From: Lars Bromley
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume
Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well:
http://www.skytruth.org/
Lars
"Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>>
Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on
the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a
conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS).
Lars
Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>>
All:
In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned:
Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of
location-based feeds, including news and videos, here:
http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html
This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data
to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by
ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure.
If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you
might try some MODIS data.
All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil
slick:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For daily images see:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7
This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select
the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click
on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250
meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the
image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a
KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer.
For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg
Joseph Kerski
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D
jkerski@esri.com
Education Manager
ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
1 International Court
Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA
Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237
Fax 303-449-8830
Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield
wrote:
Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here
http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response
good luck!
Matt Merrifield
GIS Manager
The Nature Conservancy of California
37.791, -122.395
415.281.0475 (desk)
415.793.4759 (mobile)
From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU]
On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM
To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU
Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume
Hi all *
Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of
the Deepwater Horizon oil plume?
There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search *
and I*m not quickly finding what I need.
The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data
source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA
MANY MANY THANKS!
Lynn
Lynn Kutner
Conservation Data Analyst
NatureServe
ph: (703) 797-4804
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Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC]
From: Jeffrey Warren
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline
Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there
with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow.
Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could
connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but
the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude
imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal
role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage...
I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo'
official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to
specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not
really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another
independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking
the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later -
but it's inexpensive to do.
*Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as
would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.*
To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots
Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or
learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org
Best,
Jeff
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote:
I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial
imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org),
but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing
list would love to help.
An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help
empower those who's lives are being affected directly.
On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote:
First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel
like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a
wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in
New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past
tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of
Mexico?
These are the stories that we are mapping:
http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
; via (504) 27 27 OIL
There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill
Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to
elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade:
Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and
support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and
Nathan Morrow.
Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone
In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a
truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just
look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its
best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this
after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a
headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK
YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now.
As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true
regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of
people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that
Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian
Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from
whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general.
Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the
U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of
geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably
accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In
this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as
challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this
is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I
know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in
D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You
learn a lot by being first!
One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high
tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be
utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak
that we can't understand what they are saying.
Item two: Populating the map
We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish
this tomorrow.
Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the
Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the
appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we
are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross
trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes,
though, you just don't have a choice.
Anne
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-> *CNN - Citizens Monitor Gulf After Oil Spill*
Includes work by CrisisMappers Group members: GrassrootsMapping, Ushahidi,
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http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/06/crowdsource.gulf.oil
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC]
From: France Lamy <flamy@google.com>
To: Crisismappers <crisismappers@googlegroups.com>
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
Greetings,
To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill
catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site
which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing
closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to
YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information
becomes available.
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html
Thanks!
France
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Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC]
From: Lars Bromley
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume
Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well:
http://www.skytruth.org/
Lars
"Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>>
Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on
the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a
conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS).
Lars
Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>>
All:
In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned:
Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of
location-based feeds, including news and videos, here:
http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html
This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data
to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by
ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure.
If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you
might try some MODIS data.
All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil
slick:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For daily images see:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7
This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select
the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click
on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250
meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the
image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a
KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer.
For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg
Joseph Kerski
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D
jkerski@esri.com
Education Manager
ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
1 International Court
Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA
Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237
Fax 303-449-8830
Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield
wrote:
Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here
http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response
good luck!
Matt Merrifield
GIS Manager
The Nature Conservancy of California
37.791, -122.395
415.281.0475 (desk)
415.793.4759 (mobile)
From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU]
On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM
To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU
Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume
Hi all *
Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of
the Deepwater Horizon oil plume?
There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search *
and I*m not quickly finding what I need.
The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data
source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA
MANY MANY THANKS!
Lynn
Lynn Kutner
Conservation Data Analyst
NatureServe
ph: (703) 797-4804
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Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC]
From: Jeffrey Warren
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline
Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there
with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow.
Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could
connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but
the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude
imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal
role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage...
I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo'
official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to
specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not
really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another
independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking
the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later -
but it's inexpensive to do.
*Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as
would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.*
To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots
Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or
learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org
Best,
Jeff
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote:
I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial
imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org),
but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing
list would love to help.
An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help
empower those who's lives are being affected directly.
On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote:
First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel
like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a
wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in
New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past
tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of
Mexico?
These are the stories that we are mapping:
http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
; via (504) 27 27 OIL
There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill
Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to
elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade:
Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and
support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and
Nathan Morrow.
Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone
In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a
truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just
look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its
best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this
after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a
headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK
YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now.
As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true
regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of
people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that
Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian
Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from
whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general.
Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the
U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of
geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably
accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In
this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as
challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this
is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I
know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in
D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You
learn a lot by being first!
One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high
tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be
utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak
that we can't understand what they are saying.
Item two: Populating the map
We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish
this tomorrow.
Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the
Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the
appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we
are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross
trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes,
though, you just don't have a choice.
Anne
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name: Gulf OilSpill Digital Mapping Activity -> Gulf OilSpill Digital Mapping and Online Imagery Activity
notes: Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC] From: Lars Bromley To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well: http://www.skytruth.org/ Lars "Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>> Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS). Lars Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>> All: In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned: Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of location-based feeds, including news and videos, here: http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure. If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you might try some MODIS data. All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil slick: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ For daily images see: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7 This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250 meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer. For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg Joseph Kerski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D jkerski@esri.com Education Manager ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 1 International Court Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237 Fax 303-449-8830 Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield wrote: Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response good luck! Matt Merrifield GIS Manager The Nature Conservancy of California 37.791, -122.395 415.281.0475 (desk) 415.793.4759 (mobile) From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume Hi all * Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume? There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search * and I*m not quickly finding what I need. The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA MANY MANY THANKS! Lynn Lynn Kutner Conservation Data Analyst NatureServe ph: (703) 797-4804 ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Warren To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow. Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage... I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo' official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later - but it's inexpensive to do. *Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.* To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org Best, Jeff On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org), but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing list would love to help. An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help empower those who's lives are being affected directly. On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote: First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico? These are the stories that we are mapping: http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ ; via (504) 27 27 OIL There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and Nathan Morrow. Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now. As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general. Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You learn a lot by being first! One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak that we can't understand what they are saying. Item two: Populating the map We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish this tomorrow. Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes, though, you just don't have a choice. Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CrisisMappers" group. To post to this group, send email to crisismappers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to crisismappers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<crisismappers%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en. -> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC] From: France Lamy <flamy@google.com> To: Crisismappers <crisismappers@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Greetings, To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information becomes available. http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html Thanks! France -- France Lamy, Ph.D. Program Manager Google.org Mountain View +1 (415) 736-1031 (direct) +1 (415) 690-5129 (cell) Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC] From: Lars Bromley To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well: http://www.skytruth.org/ Lars "Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>> Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS). Lars Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>> All: In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned: Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of location-based feeds, including news and videos, here: http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure. If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you might try some MODIS data. All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil slick: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ For daily images see: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7 This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250 meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer. For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg Joseph Kerski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D jkerski@esri.com Education Manager ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 1 International Court Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237 Fax 303-449-8830 Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield wrote: Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response good luck! Matt Merrifield GIS Manager The Nature Conservancy of California 37.791, -122.395 415.281.0475 (desk) 415.793.4759 (mobile) From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume Hi all * Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume? There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search * and I*m not quickly finding what I need. The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA MANY MANY THANKS! Lynn Lynn Kutner Conservation Data Analyst NatureServe ph: (703) 797-4804 ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Warren To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow. Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage... I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo' official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later - but it's inexpensive to do. *Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.* To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org Best, Jeff On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org), but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing list would love to help. An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help empower those who's lives are being affected directly. On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote: First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico? These are the stories that we are mapping: http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ ; via (504) 27 27 OIL There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and Nathan Morrow. Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now. As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general. Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You learn a lot by being first! One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak that we can't understand what they are saying. Item two: Populating the map We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish this tomorrow. Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes, though, you just don't have a choice. Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CrisisMappers" group. To post to this group, send email to crisismappers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to crisismappers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<crisismappers%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en.
(show/hide changes)notes: Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC] From: Lars Bromley To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well: http://www.skytruth.org/ Lars "Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>> Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS). Lars Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>> All: In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned: Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of location-based feeds, including news and videos, here: http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure. If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you might try some MODIS data. All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil slick: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ For daily images see: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7 This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250 meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer. For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg Joseph Kerski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D jkerski@esri.com Education Manager ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 1 International Court Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237 Fax 303-449-8830 Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield wrote: Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response good luck! Matt Merrifield GIS Manager The Nature Conservancy of California 37.791, -122.395 415.281.0475 (desk) 415.793.4759 (mobile) From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume Hi all * Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume? There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search * and I*m not quickly finding what I need. The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA MANY MANY THANKS! Lynn Lynn Kutner Conservation Data Analyst NatureServe ph: (703) 797-4804 ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Warren To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow. Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage... I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo' official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later - but it's inexpensive to do. *Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.* To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org Best, Jeff On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org), but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing list would love to help. An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help empower those who's lives are being affected directly. On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote: First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico? These are the stories that we are mapping: http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ ; via (504) 27 27 OIL There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and Nathan Morrow. Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now. As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general. Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You learn a lot by being first! One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak that we can't understand what they are saying. Item two: Populating the map We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish this tomorrow. Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes, though, you just don't have a choice. Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CrisisMappers" group. To post to this group, send email to crisismappers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to crisismappers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<crisismappers%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en. -> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 10:33:30 -0700 [05/06/2010 05:33PM UTC] From: France Lamy <flamy@google.com> To: Crisismappers <crisismappers@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] Google Crisis Response -- Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Greetings, To help with the rescue and recovery efforts for the oil spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, we created a "Crisis Response" site which contains imagery & maps of the locations of the oil, fishing closures and affected areas, the ability to upload videos directly to YouTube, and more. We will update this site as more information becomes available. http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/mapping-gulf-oil-spill-in-google-earth.html Thanks! France -- France Lamy, Ph.D. Program Manager Google.org Mountain View +1 (415) 736-1031 (direct) +1 (415) 690-5129 (cell) Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC] From: Lars Bromley To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well: http://www.skytruth.org/ Lars "Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>> Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS). Lars Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>> All: In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned: Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of location-based feeds, including news and videos, here: http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure. If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you might try some MODIS data. All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil slick: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/ For daily images see: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7 This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250 meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer. For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg Joseph Kerski ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Joseph J. Kerski, Ph.D jkerski@esri.com Education Manager ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. 1 International Court Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237 Fax 303-449-8830 Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield wrote: Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response good luck! Matt Merrifield GIS Manager The Nature Conservancy of California 37.791, -122.395 415.281.0475 (desk) 415.793.4759 (mobile) From: Society for Conservation and GIS [mailto:SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU] On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume Hi all * Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of the Deepwater Horizon oil plume? There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search * and I*m not quickly finding what I need. The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA MANY MANY THANKS! Lynn Lynn Kutner Conservation Data Analyst NatureServe ph: (703) 797-4804 ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** ******************************************************* SCGIS:The LISTSERV for the Society for Conservation GIS www.scgis.org To unsubscribe send the following email message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.URI.EDU: SIGNOFF SCGIS ******************************************************** Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC] From: Jeffrey Warren To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow. Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage... I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo' official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later - but it's inexpensive to do. *Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.* To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org Best, Jeff On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote: I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org), but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing list would love to help. An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help empower those who's lives are being affected directly. On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote: First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of Mexico? These are the stories that we are mapping: http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/ ; via (504) 27 27 OIL There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade: Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and Nathan Morrow. Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now. As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general. Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You learn a lot by being first! One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak that we can't understand what they are saying. Item two: Populating the map We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish this tomorrow. Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes, though, you just don't have a choice. Anne -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CrisisMappers" group. To post to this group, send email to crisismappers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to crisismappers+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com<crisismappers%2Bunsubscribe@googlegroups.com> . For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/crisismappers?hl=en.
Thu May 06 06:53:05 +0000 2010 by tfri:
notes: Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC]
From: Jeffrey Warren
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline
Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there
with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow.
Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could
connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but
the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude
imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal
role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage...
I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo'
official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to
specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not
really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another
independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking
the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later -
but it's inexpensive to do.
*Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as
would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.*
To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots
Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or
learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org
Best,
Jeff
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote:
I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial
imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org),
but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing
list would love to help.
An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help
empower those who's lives are being affected directly.
On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote:
First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel
like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a
wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in
New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past
tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of
Mexico?
These are the stories that we are mapping:
http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
; via (504) 27 27 OIL
There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill
Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to
elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade:
Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and
support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and
Nathan Morrow.
Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone
In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a
truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just
look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its
best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this
after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a
headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK
YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now.
As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true
regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of
people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that
Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian
Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from
whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general.
Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the
U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of
geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably
accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In
this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as
challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this
is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I
know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in
D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You
learn a lot by being first!
One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high
tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be
utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak
that we can't understand what they are saying.
Item two: Populating the map
We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish
this tomorrow.
Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the
Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the
appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we
are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross
trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes,
though, you just don't have a choice.
Anne
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-> Date: Wed, 05 May 2010 10:21:42 -0400 [05/05/2010 02:21PM UTC]
From: Lars Bromley
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [CrisisMappers] GIS / imagery layers for Gulf oil plume
Also, one other bit, the good folks at SkyTruth are doing remote sensing work on this as well:
http://www.skytruth.org/
Lars
"Lars Bromley"5/5/2010 10:09 AM >>>
Hi All, In case its needed and not crossed these wires yet, a bunch of data on
the Gulf oil spill is discussed in the below messages from a
conservation GIS mailing list (SCGIS).
Lars
Joseph Kerski 5/4/2010 9:22 PM >>>
All:
In addition to the ArcGIS Online data already mentioned:
Interactive map that ESRI has posted that allows the viewing of
location-based feeds, including news and videos, here:
http://www.esri.com/services/disaster-response/gulf-oil-spill-2010/index.html
This application is powered by ArcGIS Server. Individuals can add data
to this mapping application. The ability to add content is provided by
ArcGIS Server 10 beta hosted in the Amazon Web Service infrastructure.
If you want to dig deeper and use some remotely sensed imagery, you
might try some MODIS data.
All MODIS data are free, and there are several images of the oil
slick:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/
For daily images see:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?subset=USA7
This page provides GIS compatible imagery: Select "more info," select
the granule of interest from the list at the bottom of the page. Click
on the link to get an uncorrected 5-minute swath image, down to 250
meter resolution. Make sure you also download the world file so the
image will be georegistered within your GIS. You could also download a
KML and use it in ArcGIS Explorer.
For example, I found a 250m MODIS image with world file available on:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/?2010119-0429/Louisiana.A2010119.1648.250m.jpg
Joseph Kerski
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jkerski@esri.com
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ESRI - Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc.
1 International Court
Broomfield CO 80021-3200 USA
Tel 303-449-7779 x 8237
Fax 303-449-8830
Join the GIS Education Community: http://edcommunity.esri.com
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On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Matt Merrifield
wrote:
Lynn * ESRI has a bunch of stuff here
http://www.arcgisonline.com/home/group.html?owner=ESRI_response_team&title=ESRI%20Gulf%20Oil%20Spill%20Response
good luck!
Matt Merrifield
GIS Manager
The Nature Conservancy of California
37.791, -122.395
415.281.0475 (desk)
415.793.4759 (mobile)
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On Behalf Of Lynn Kutner
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2010 1:57 PM
To: SCGIS@LISTSERV.URI.EDU
Subject: ISO GIS layer for deepwater horizon oil plume
Hi all *
Anyone have a link to download a GIS layer with the current extent of
the Deepwater Horizon oil plume?
There are a zillion results that come up when I do a google search *
and I*m not quickly finding what I need.
The map from ABC and on the NYT website references NOAA as their data
source, but I*m not seeing where / how to download that from NOAA
MANY MANY THANKS!
Lynn
Lynn Kutner
Conservation Data Analyst
NatureServe
ph: (703) 797-4804
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Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 11:07:23 -0400 [05/04/2010 03:07PM UTC]
From: Jeffrey Warren
To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Reply-To: crisismappers@googlegroups.com
Subject: [CrisisMappers] citizen (grassroots) mapping effort of spill coastline
Ok we've had a couple responses and will hopefully have someone down there
with some ballooning/kiting/airplaning equipment by tomorrow.
Does anyone have more contacts of folks on the ground there who we could
connect with and help to document not only the spill's arrival onshore, but
the citizen response? We'd like to capture high-resolution low-altitude
imagery of specific sites for documentation purposes (i.e. possible legal
role in the litigation) as well as for media coverage...
I want to emphasis that we're not trying to map the entire spill nor 'outdo'
official mapping efforts, but to focus on documenting the risks/damage to
specific sites and good enough resolution to see specific effects. Not
really for immediate crisis response, but as a way of adding another
independent data source for analysis or press coverage. We're also taking
the position that we won't know how useful the data will be until later -
but it's inexpensive to do.
*Any additional local contacts in the spill zone would be appreciated, as
would suggestions of high-relevance sites to focus on.*
To join in the organizing effort or just listen in, join the Grasroots
Mapping mailing list at http://groups.google.com/group/grassrootsmapping/ or
learn more about our tools/techniques at http://grassrootsmapping.org
Best,
Jeff
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Jeffrey Warren wrote:
I don't know if it'd be useful to have a matching crowdsourced aerial
imaging campaign (using balloons and kites as in grassrootsmapping.org),
but if there's any interest, some of us at the grassrootsmapping mailing
list would love to help.
An alternative public domain dataset to the official story might help
empower those who's lives are being affected directly.
On May 3, 2010 11:23 AM, "Anne" wrote:
First Hurricane Katrina and now the BP oil spill. It really does feel
like too much. A man named Jason told me this today. "Well, I was a
wholesaler / retailer." He buys fish from the boats and re sells it in
New Orleans. But today Jason spoke of his livelihood in the past
tense. What else can we think when oil is gushing into our Gulf of
Mexico?
These are the stories that we are mapping:
http://www.oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/
; via (504) 27 27 OIL
There are two dynamics happening on this, day three of our Oil Spill
Crisis Map. I thought it might be helpful to the larger community to
elucidate them. We have a great team at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade:
Mariko, Shannon, Anna, Clayton and I, along with much guidance and
support from Tulane University's Zach Holden and Dr.'s Nancy Mock and
Nathan Morrow.
Item One: Coordinating aid in a disaster zone
In Hurricane Katrina's aftermath I recall watching an aid worker in a
truck of some kind - Red Cross or World Vision - drive by and just
look at me out of their window. Me, a hurricane victim! But at its
best aid empowers local people, and so many organizations did this
after Hurricane Katrina. Our newspaper - The Times Picayune - ran a
headline on the first anniversary of the storm. It was a giant THANK
YOU for all of the help. We needed it then and we need it now.
As with Katrina, lots of organizations have come in, and this is true
regarding mapping. We are trying to coordinate many different sets of
people doing many different things. I am reminded of the piece that
Patrick wrote regarding an SMS Code of Conduct for Humanitarian
Response. Yes, one is needed, but perhaps it's not so different from
whatever the code of conduct is for Humanitarian Response in general.
Some sort of Code might be especially useful for disasters here in the
U.S. While disasters in other parts of the world have barriers of
geography and language, this U.S. based disaster is comparably
accessible. And so there are potentially more players to manage. In
this case, managing all of these players has been nearly as
challenging as dealing with this oil spill. If I am not mistaken, this
is the first time Ushahidi has been deployed for a U.S. disaster. I
know it has been used for crime maps in Atlanta and Snowmaggedon in
D.C., but this is the first U.S. disaster response. Am I right? You
learn a lot by being first!
One note to those who help people in disaster zones: don't be too high
tech. Some of the tools being offered are just too fancy to be
utilized by real people. Other people are so bogged down in tech speak
that we can't understand what they are saying.
Item two: Populating the map
We have another long day tomorrow and it's already 12:30. I'll finish
this tomorrow.
Thanks for all of the help, advice and good wishes. The spirit of the
Crisis Mappers is important to us - I love the vibe and the
appreciation of what is happening on the ground. On this ground now we
are expecting oil. And shrimpers stand around waiting as Red Cross
trucks drive up and offer lunch. No one wants to take it. Sometimes,
though, you just don't have a choice.
Anne
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