Rapid Mapping: geomatics role and research opportunities

Ajmar, Andrea; Boccardo, Piero; Disabato, Franca; Tonolo, Fabio Giulio

doi:10.1007/s12210-015-0410-9

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“…Concerning the extent of the area to be surveyed, multi-rotor platforms are usually the first choice when small areas or isolated buildings must be surveyed, therefore fitting the requirements of emergencies like industrial accidents (including potential needs for indoor flights in case of search and rescue applications [28]) and landslides.…”

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UAV Deployment Exercise for Mapping Purposes: Evaluation of Emergency Response Applications

Boccardo

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Dutto

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Sensors

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Exploiting the decrease of costs related to UAV technology, the humanitarian community started piloting the use of similar systems in humanitarian crises several years ago in different application fields, i.e., disaster mapping and information gathering, community capacity building, logistics and even transportation of goods. Part of the author’s group, composed of researchers in the field of applied geomatics, has been piloting the use of UAVs since 2006, with a specific focus on disaster management application. In the framework of such activities, a UAV deployment exercise was jointly organized with the Regional Civil Protection authority, mainly aimed at assessing the operational procedures to deploy UAVs for mapping purposes and the usability of the acquired data in an emergency response context. In the paper the technical features of the UAV platforms will be described, comparing the main advantages/disadvantages of fixed-wing versus rotor platforms. The main phases of the adopted operational procedure will be discussed and assessed especially in terms of time required to carry out each step, highlighting potential bottlenecks and in view of the national regulation framework, which is rapidly evolving. Different methodologies for the processing of the acquired data will be described and discussed, evaluating the fitness for emergency response applications.

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UAV Deployment Exercise for Mapping Purposes: Evaluation of Emergency Response Applications

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“…The traditional Rapid Mapping approaches through the use of satellite data have already proven * Corresponding author their efficiency in post disaster scenarios for the creation of large scale maps useful to support the operations in the field (Ajmar et al, 2015;Cooner et al, 2016;De Alwis Pitts and So, 2017;Yamazaki and Liu, 2016). In the context of a multiscale approach, especially for the Rapid Mapping of the Built Heritage, in at risk scenarios is crucial to adopt different strategies to achieve a higher detail of areas of specific interest.…”

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Rapid Mapping for Built Heritage at Risk Using Low-Cost and Cots Sensors. A Test in the Duomo Vecchio of San Severino Marche

Calantropio

Colucci

Losè

2017

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:In the last years, the researchers in the field of Geomatics have focused their attention in the experimentation and validation of new methodologies and techniques, stressing especially the potential of low-cost and COTS (Commercial Off The Shelf) solutions and sensors. In particular, these tools have been used with purposes of rapid mapping in different contexts (ranging from the construction industry, environmental monitoring, mining activities, etc.). The Built Heritage, due to its intrinsic nature of endangered artefact, can largely benefit from the technological and methodological innovations in this research field. The contribute presented in this paper will highlight these main topics: the rapid mapping of the Built Heritage (in particular the one subjected to different types of risk) using low-cost and COTS solutions. Different sensors and techniques were chosen to be evaluated on a specific test site: the Duomo Vecchio of San Severino Marche (MC -Italy), that was partially affected by the earthquake swarm that hit the area of Central Italy starting from the 24 th of August 2016. One of the main aims of this work is to demonstrate how low-cost and COTS sensors can contribute to the documentation of the Built Heritage for its safeguard, for damage assessment in case of disastrous events and operations of restoration and preservation.

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“…As stated before, time is crucial for Emergency Management (EM), to minimize the time required for post-event map production, Rapid Mapping should be based on consolidated operational workflows. Ajmar et al (2015) have proposed a simplified workflow highlighting the main processing steps: (1) Pre-event preparation activities (Reference data regarding the affected area before the event), (2) Event (Up-to-date reference data covering the affected area before the event), (3) Reference data updating (Satellite/aerial post-event acquisition), (4) Satellite/aerial post event image processing, (5) Map production. There are more than one service providers involved in disaster Rapid Mapping such as United Nations UNOSAT rapid Mapping service, International charter space and major disasters, the European Union's Earth Observation Programme Copernicus Emergency Management service (EMS).…”

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Quality Check of Crisis Maps Produced Over Five Years by Copernicus Ems

Spasenovic

Carrión

2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Commission III, ICWG III/IVb KEY WORDS: crisis map, quality assessment, readability, metadata ABSTRACT:Crisis mapping is a widely used tool for the digital representation of a disaster situation. It provides stakeholders with spatial information of the crisis describing type and severity of damages, impact on the area and its population. The quality of crisis maps is of a great importance, since the disaster response depends on the provided information. In some cases, in order to deliver a map on time, its quality can be lower than expected. The evaluation of a big sample of rapid maps produced between 2013 and 2017 and collected from open source Copernicus service have been performed. The quality check has been performed by visual analysis, observing around 36 parameters defined in the validation protocol designed at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission. Overall conclusion is that crisis maps produced during the observed period have shown good level of the quality, that can satisfy the need of user. Still, there are some parameters that could be delivered with more details and precision. The results are analysed in details and remarks are presented.

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Rapid Mapping: geomatics role and research opportunities

Cited by 34 publications

References 10 publications

UAV Deployment Exercise for Mapping Purposes: Evaluation of Emergency Response Applications

UAV Deployment Exercise for Mapping Purposes: Evaluation of Emergency Response Applications

Rapid Mapping for Built Heritage at Risk Using Low-Cost and Cots Sensors. A Test in the Duomo Vecchio of San Severino Marche

Quality Check of Crisis Maps Produced Over Five Years by Copernicus Ems

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