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Patrick Meier: Geospatial Information Management – Ten Year Vision

A 10 Year Vision: Future Trends in Geospatial Information Management The United Nations Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management (UN-GGIM) recently published their second edition of Future Trends in Geospatial Information Management. I blogged about the first edition here. Below are some of the excerpts I found interesting or noteworthy. The report itself is …

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Patrick Meier: Summary of Recent Accomplishments

QED – Goodbye Doha, Hello Adventure! EXTRACT I joined the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) well over 3 years ago with a very specific mission and mandate: to develop and deploy next generation humanitarian technologies. So I built the Institute’s Social Innovation Program from the ground up and recruited the majority of the full-time experts (scientists, engineers, research assistants, …

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Patrick Meier: Automating Visual Heuristics — Human Clicks Train Computer Algorithms on Big Data (Aerial)

Using Computer Vision to Analyze Big (Aerial) Data from UAVs During Disasters Recent scientific research has shown that aerial imagery captured during a single 20-minute UAV flight can take more than half-a-day to analyze. We flew several dozen flights during the World Bank’s humanitarian UAV mission in response to Cyclone Pam earlier this year. The imagery we captured would’ve taken …

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Patrick Meier: Nepal Humanitarian UAV Lessons Learned — A Long Way to Go — Internet Pipe is Achilles Heel.

Humanitarian UAV Missions in Nepal: Early Observations Phi Beta Iota: Worth a full read.  We are reminded of DARPA’s STRONG ANGEL and note with interest that the Internet being down in Nepal makes a lot of the UAV collection irrelevant — sort of like NSA’s global collection that is not processed and 99% of “big …

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Patrick Meier: Digital Jedis – Nepal Earthquake

A Force for Good: How Digital Jedis are Responding to the Nepal Earthquake Digital Humanitarians are responding in full force to the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal. Information sharing and coordination is taking place online via CrisisMappers and on multiple dedicated Skype chats. The Standby Task Force (SBTF), Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) and others from the Digital Humanitarian Network …

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Patrick Meier: Crowd-Sourcing, AI, and Imagery

Aerial Imagery Analysis: Combining Crowdsourcing and Artificial Intelligence MicroMappers combines crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence to make sense of “Big Data” for Social Good. Why artificial intelligence (AI)? Because regular crowdsourcing alone is no match for Big Data. The MicroMappers platform can already be used to crowdsource the search for relevant tweets as well as pictures, videos, text messages, aerial imagery and soon satellite …

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