Arogya Koirala
Kathmandu Living Labs
3 December, 2018
The OpenStreetMap Community.
Using satellite imagery and the help of the to rapidly map roads, buildings and more.
....[this] network of human sensors has over 6 billion components, each an intelligent synthesizer and interpreter of local information.
- Michael Goodchild (2007)
Quake Map.
Crowd-sourcing to bridge the information gap between rescue workers and people in need.
National Housing Reconstruction Survey
Assessing building damage, and socio-economic impact of the 2015 EQ using mobile data collection technology.
31 districts. 5 million+ people. 1 million+ building.
Building damage + socio-economic data during the inter-census period.
7 government and non-government organisations.
2500 engineers to be deployed.
11 districts.
1 million buildings.
Less than 3 months.
Completely offline.
Image compression.
Send images and text-seperately.
2015 Earthquake Data Portal
Making damage assessment and socio-economic data accessible to all.
arogyakoirala@gmail.com