Crowd-sourced disaster data through social media
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147604
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Snapchat
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Technology
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Published
2022/10/18
Updated
2022/11/22
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Volunteer groundtruth used to verify satellite data using crowdsourced ‘pin drops’ and pictures from people with smartphones.
Ordinary citizens and volunteers on the ground may become important actors in collecting and analyzing climate and disaster data around the world. Through a process known as ‘“Groundtruthing” satellite data is verified on the ground. This is done using crowdsourced “pin drops” and pictures sent by people whose mobile devices have cameras. Groundtruthing allows authorities to tap into localized data, study disasters, build automated land-use classification algorithms and better understand how people experiences these in real-time. One example is the social media company Snapchat’s map function called Snap Map. The map is part of a social media app with millions of followers used for sharing short temporary video clips of people’s lives, pinned to a certain geographical spot. Although the app was not developed for disaster data reporting, its millions of users may give it a far wider reach than the fit-for-purpose apps. The use of social media has the potential to offer insights into how hurricanes, storms and floods unfold so as to guide first responders to critical intervention points.
Getty Images /© Orbon Alija
Getty Images /© Orbon Alija
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