{"id":10582,"date":"2015-05-15T01:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T05:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10582"},"modified":"2015-05-15T01:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T05:24:05","slug":"zooniverse-uses-planet-labs-images-to-help-direct-aid-in-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10582","title":{"rendered":"Zooniverse uses Planet Labs images to help direct aid in Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The citizen science program Zooniverse<\/a> used satellite imagery from Planet Labs<\/a>\u00a0to help spot areas of Nepal in urgent need of assistance after the earthquake:\u00a0Disaster Response in Nepal and The Zooniverse –\u00a0Zooniverse<\/a><\/p>\n

Very soon after the recent magnitude-7.8 earthquake in Nepal<\/a>, we were contacted by multiple groups involved in directly responding with aid and rescue teams, asking if we could assist in the efforts getting underway to crowdsource the mapping of the region. One of those groups was Rescue Global<\/a>, an independent reconnaissance charity that works across multiple areas of disaster risk reduction and response. Rescue Global also works with our collaborators in\u00a0machine learning<\/a> here at Oxford, combining human and computer inputs for disaster response in a project called Orchid<\/a>. And they asked us to help them pinpoint the areas with the most urgent unfulfilled need for aid.<\/em><\/p>\n

And so we sprang into action. The satellite company Planet Labs<\/a>\u00a0generously shared all its available data on Nepal with us. The resolution of Planet Labs\u2019 imagery \u2013 about 5 metres per pixel \u2013 is perfect for rapid examination of large ground areas while showing enough detail to easily spot the signs of cities, farms and other settlements. After discussions with Rescue Global we decided to focus on the area surrounding Kathmandu, with a bias westward toward the quake epicentre, as much of this area is heavily populated but we knew many other, complementary efforts were focusing on the capital itself. We sliced about 13,000 km2 of land imagery into classifiable tiles, and created a new project using brand new Zooniverse software (coming very very soon!) that allows rapid project creation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The citizen science program Zooniverse used satellite imagery from Planet Labs\u00a0to help spot areas of Nepal in urgent need of assistance after the earthquake:\u00a0Disaster Response in Nepal and The Zooniverse –\u00a0Zooniverse Very soon after the recent magnitude-7.8 earthquake in Nepal, we were contacted by multiple groups involved in directly responding with aid and rescue teams, … Continue reading Zooniverse uses Planet Labs images to help direct aid in Nepal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eyes-in-the-sky","category-space-participation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2KG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6535,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6535","url_meta":{"origin":10582,"position":0},"title":"Zooniverse passes one million citizen science volunteers","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations to Zooniverse\u00a0on gaining their one millionth volunteer for their many citizen science projects after starting seven years ago :\u00a0One Million Volunteers - Zooniverse This map shows the global distribution of volunteers. 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