Nordic Geospatial Blog –

Power to the people (geospatially)…
http://www.data.gov/catalog/geodata

LA Solar Potential and Tools
http://gis.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Solar-Potential-LA-County.pdf
http://solarmap.lacounty.gov/

LAR-IAC 3 – Sharing is Caring (especially with 2 million building footprints : )
http://planning.lacounty.gov/lariac/download.htm

3D on a Budget via Microsoft Photosynth
http://photosynth.net/default.aspx

LA Survey of Historic Architectural Resources
http://www.preservation.lacity.org/survey

AUDIO.. thanks KCRW & DnA blog
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/de/de090915does_creative_archit

Bernstein complete interview from http://designandarchitectureonkcrw.vox.com/

VIDEO

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128004928

UPDATE 20100712

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

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

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

UPDATE 20100302
02.19.10 – USAID-DCHA Haiti Earthquake Mapbook38

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UPDATE 1900 GMT 20100126 -

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

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

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

UNOCHA
http://ochaonline.un.org/

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

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

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

http://www.rics.org/disastermanagement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1000m WMS

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

1000m WFS

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

MGRS 100m grids – Port Au Prince

WMS Service

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

WFS Service

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

UN SPIDER Space Application Matrix

Find more videos like this on AlertNet Editorial

Aloha All,

If you attended the HCPO/HIGICC 2009 Conference last month, you already know that the presentations are available online. But if you weren’t able to attend, now’s your chance to check out some excellent presentations that were made at the conference. Here’s a link to the presentations website:

http://resilientcommunitieshawaii.org/presentations.html

Thanks, Royce.

Royce A. Jones

Hawaii-Pacific Region Manager

http://www.esri.com/events/cahinvrug/index.html

Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI)
1357 Kapiolani Blvd. #1110
Honolulu HI 96814
808-947-0993 x 1-5638 (tel)
808-947-5690 (fax)
rjones@esri.com

http://www.esri.com

http://calfire.blogspot.com/

LA County CIO eGIS beta fire ESRI FLEX viewer (POC LA County GIO Mark Greninger – mgreninger@cio.lacounty.gov )
http://gis1.lacounty.gov/fireflex/

http://www.calema.ca.gov/WebPage/oeswebsite.nsf/Content/29813B5649FA481A882575E500805790?OpenDocument

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/1856/

http://www.inciweb.org/incident/maps/1856/

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

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

http://www.geomac.gov

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

http://nowcoast.noaa.gov

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

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

CLICK HERE
to Download a Google Earth KMZ file (.zip compressed) – must have GoogleEarth or ESRI’s ArcExplorer installed – goto http://earth.google.com/ or http://www.esri.com/software/arcexplorer/ for more info

May 12 GTC Executive Summit location in 3D