Harley Parks
Jerry Giles
Todd Hall
Will Yipp
Tim Gramp
PACOM PWC APAN, Pearl Harbor, HI
Real-Time Data Acquisition
Tuesday March 6, 2012 - 3:15 to 4:30 pm
All Partners Access Network (APAN) is a social media website (https://community.apan.org) for information sharing and collaboration between U.S. Military, U.S. Interagency, foreign military, international organizations (IOs), nongovernment organizations (NGOs), medical community, and civilian authorities. APAN augments the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) responsibility for the Department of Defense (DOD) Unclassified Information Sharing Service (UISS) in support of all Combatant Commands (COCOMs) and mission partners in the respective Area of Responsibility (AOR).
During the Haiti Earthquake Relief Efforts and International response to 2011 Japan Disaster, APAN demonstrates an open and secure network capability supporting critical humanitarian missions, exercises, and operations in need of collecting, storing, creating and distributing geospatial incident awareness and assessment information. APAN clients establish profiles, join online communities, write blogs, participate in forums, post/view media, schedule events, glean knowledge in wikis, and find information through multi-faceted search capability.
The APAN GIS provides the geographic context for users, groups, blogs, forums, media, calendars, wikis, and search engines. APAN's GIS strategy embraces security policies, harvest unstructured geographic data sources, utilize crowd sourcing, establish partnerships, and propose strategic directions while supporting daily operations. The geospatial applications range from venue planning, routing, capability profiles, resource distributions, event and staging locations, human impacts and response assessment, to real-time location updates. APAN's social media and GIS services use the internet and mobile technologies to leverage a unique opportunity to meet both Open Government and information security concerns.
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Showing posts with label social media. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Monday, January 2, 2012
Hawaii Coqui Crawl Project - Counting Frogs With Cell Phones
Sam Droege
USGS PWRC, Beltsville, MD
Derek Masaki
USGS NGP/CSAS, Kahului, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
The Coqui Crawl project will work to model the distribution and perhaps general abundance of coqui frog in Hawaii...using a network of volunteers armed with mobile handsets.
The model for this effort is the 2009 New York City Cricket Crawl where 300 volunteers, assisted by USGS biologists, used their cellphones to survey for native crickets and katydids in the heart of America’s most populous city. The teams found all 7 targeted species and provided new occurrence points for an insect group last surveyed in New York over 100 years ago.
The lead scientist involved in the project, Sam Droege, will lead a discussion on the methods used in the NYC survey, review outcomes, and provide guidance on conducting a frog survey in Hawaii.
USGS PWRC, Beltsville, MD
Derek Masaki
USGS NGP/CSAS, Kahului, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
The Coqui Crawl project will work to model the distribution and perhaps general abundance of coqui frog in Hawaii...using a network of volunteers armed with mobile handsets.
The model for this effort is the 2009 New York City Cricket Crawl where 300 volunteers, assisted by USGS biologists, used their cellphones to survey for native crickets and katydids in the heart of America’s most populous city. The teams found all 7 targeted species and provided new occurrence points for an insect group last surveyed in New York over 100 years ago.
The lead scientist involved in the project, Sam Droege, will lead a discussion on the methods used in the NYC survey, review outcomes, and provide guidance on conducting a frog survey in Hawaii.
Crowdsourcing VGI: An Elegant Solution to a Thorny Problem
Ronald Cannarella
DLNR/Division of Forestry & Wildlife, Honolulu, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
GIS is but one of the major innovations in the last 20 years. The internet is another. The World Wide Web has evolved to "Web 2.0", shorthand for social media apps such as facebook and twitter. Smart phones eliminated "long distance" charges, and video enabled cell phones have toppled mighty armies.
Meanwhile, we expect our government to do more with less. Hawaii, once the most isolated place on Earth is now a desired dream destinations for millions. Visitors are struck with the beauty of our islands, but have no knowledge of the hazards in paradise. People get injured, and the State gets sued for not putting a warning sign. Consumers import pets and plants that escape into the wild and wreck havoc with our environment. How can we hope to maintain our watersheds, our economy, and our lifestyle?
By "crowdsourcing" Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI). Crowdsourcing is "broadcasting the need for assistance to an unknown group of participants". VGI is information about a place at a specific time. By combining these technologies everyone can become part of the solution to protect the `aina. NOAA has already created the "Marine Debris Tracker" app for iPhone/Android. Good timing; a huge patch of debris from Japan is headed our way.
GIS geeks, think of the possibilities! We need data, the community wants services. We all love Hawaii. We'll continue this topic at the unconference on Wednesday in cooperation with the real Web 2.0 experts; The Social Media Club of Hawaii. Chocolate, meet peanut butter.
DLNR/Division of Forestry & Wildlife, Honolulu, HI
GIS for Citizen Engagement
Wednesday March 7, 2012 - 10:45 am to noon
GIS is but one of the major innovations in the last 20 years. The internet is another. The World Wide Web has evolved to "Web 2.0", shorthand for social media apps such as facebook and twitter. Smart phones eliminated "long distance" charges, and video enabled cell phones have toppled mighty armies.
Meanwhile, we expect our government to do more with less. Hawaii, once the most isolated place on Earth is now a desired dream destinations for millions. Visitors are struck with the beauty of our islands, but have no knowledge of the hazards in paradise. People get injured, and the State gets sued for not putting a warning sign. Consumers import pets and plants that escape into the wild and wreck havoc with our environment. How can we hope to maintain our watersheds, our economy, and our lifestyle?
By "crowdsourcing" Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI). Crowdsourcing is "broadcasting the need for assistance to an unknown group of participants". VGI is information about a place at a specific time. By combining these technologies everyone can become part of the solution to protect the `aina. NOAA has already created the "Marine Debris Tracker" app for iPhone/Android. Good timing; a huge patch of debris from Japan is headed our way.
GIS geeks, think of the possibilities! We need data, the community wants services. We all love Hawaii. We'll continue this topic at the unconference on Wednesday in cooperation with the real Web 2.0 experts; The Social Media Club of Hawaii. Chocolate, meet peanut butter.
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