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Satellite Imagery, Mobile Phones and Radios
Earth Observation System Launches in Africa: the SERVIR system integrates satellite resources into a web-based Earth information system, putting previously inaccessible information into action locally....
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Crisis Mapping Africa’s Crossborder Conflicts
My colleague Dennis King just sent me update on the Humanitarian Information Unit’s (HIU) project, “Africa: Conflicts Without Borders 2007-2008.” Instead of the usual depiction of conflicts as...
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Africa’s Crossborder Conflicts on Google Earth
This post is an update on the Humanitarian Information Unit’s (HIU) crisis map of crossborder conflicts in Africa. Dennis King at HIU kindly shared with me the shapefiles for the static conflict map so...
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Crisis Mapping Somalia with the Diaspora
The state of Minnesota is home to the largest population of Somalis in North America. Like any Diaspora, the estimated 25,000 Somalis who live there ar closely linked to family members back home. They...
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Analyzing Satellite Imagery of the Somali Crisis Using Crowdsourcing
Update: results of satellite imagery analysis available here. You gotta love Twitter. Just two hours after I tweeted the above—in reference to this project—a colleague of mine from the UN who just got...
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The Horn of Africa and the Crisis Mapping Community
“… the Horn of Africa famine and the associated crises gravely affecting millions of people has not animated the crisis-mapping community and its online platforms to the extent of post-Haiti or, more...
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Crisis Mapping Climate Change, Conflict and Aid in Africa
I recently gave a guest lecture at the University of Texas, Austin, and finally had the opportunity to catch up with my colleague Josh Busby who has been working on a promising crisis mapping project...
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