Playlist for Show: The Science Hour

In this episode we talk with Sara Jenkins, a GIS Specialist from the University of British Columbia about crisis mapping. Sara volunteers with an aid group called Standby Task Force (you can too! Check out how you can become a part of crowd sourcing and crisis mapping:http://www.standbytaskforce.org/) that helps live map crisis struck areas to assist aid groups in deploying emergency services. She’s a mapping Ninja, so says Patrick Meier, the founder of the standby task force and, dare I say, father of crisis mapping!

This is a continuation of last week’s interview and includes a few clips of Patrick Meier talking about the evolution of crisis mapping.

 

REFERENCES:

http://professionalaerialphotographers.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=808138&module_id=158950

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landsat_program

http://www.standbytaskforce.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRG_Rue1a-s

 

 

 

Groups Sara Refers to:

Standby Task Force

Humanity Road

 

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