Companion blog for the course “Disaster Mapping 2.0″ teached by Prof. Dr. Joao Porto de Albuquerque and Svend-Jonas Schellhorn at the GIScience group of Heidelberg University.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 29th, 2014
By J. Kramp
Resilience in the case of a disaster is described by the MCEE as: “reduced probability of system failure, reduced consequences due to failure, and reduced time to system restoration.” (vgl. MCEE, 2014) All this is the goal to be achieved through experimental socio-technological changes like Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI).
A case study in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2014
By Dirk Wetzlar
Due to the increasing use of sophisticated mobile personal communication devices (MPCDC), particularly smartphones, the possibilities for citizens to collect, share and combine data have increased in the last years. With features like cameras, microphones, GPS and access to internet built into MPCDC, people using them can easily gather data, combine them with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 24th, 2014
By Bianca Kappl
Natural and anthropogenic disasters have occurred in history and will occur in future, because of global climate change, population growth or the spread of infectious diseases (ZOOK ET AL. 2010, 10). The Haiti Earthquake occurred in January 2010 could be regarded as a good example for a natural disaster in the context [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2014
By Charlotte Stirn
If we study the past and recent news it gets apparent that disasters are happening nearly every day in many different forms, affecting the lives of many thousands and millions of people every year (current example: Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea) (De Ville de Goyet).
Mankind has always been exposed to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 23rd, 2014
Welcome to the course “Disaster Mapping 2.0: Volunteered Geographic Information in Disaster Risk Management and Humanitarian Aid” offered in the Winter Semester 2014/2015 by Prof. João Porto de Albuquerque and Svend-Jonas Schellhorn of the GIScience group of the Institute of Geography at Heidelberg University. In the next following weeks until the end of November [...]