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UPDATE 20100411
The Triumph of the Ordinary Cellphone by ANAND GIRIDHARADAS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Agenda and Videos

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the wake of the global H1N1 pandemic, this global meeting at the World Health Organization (WHO – OMS) in Geneva was very informative.

Overview – http://www.who.int/countryfocus/fifthglobalhwcomeeting/en/index.html

Video press conference by the WHO Director General, Dr. Margaret Chan – June 11, 2009

Overview of WHO Global Alert and Response (GAR) and Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN)