Organised Editing/Activities/SOSAcre2021

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Acre Inundações/Floods 2021

In February 2021, massive precipitation has led to an overflow of rivers and extended flooding across several municipalities in the State of Acre. At the same time, the state of Acre is dealing with a worsening of the COVID-19 pandemic within its borders, a dengue outbreak and a migratory crisis of Haitian migrants on the borders with Peru. In the light of such events, Acre has declared a state of emergency on the 23rd of February.

The University of Warwick, in collaboration with the Secretary of the Environment of the State of Acre, the Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Heidelberg University and the Federal University of Acre (UFAC), is coordinating an international mapping campaign to support local authorities in responding to an ongoing humanitarian crisis.

Rationale

Ongoing collaboration in the context of the International project 'Waterproofing Data: Engaging stakeholders in Sustainable Flood Risk governance for Urban Resilience', in the form of a series of collaborative mapping activities, with the participation of local communities and students from different departments of the Federal University of Acre (UFAC) have created a basis of mapping experience to local citizens and this experience is expected to be put into action in response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis.

With the majority of buildings and streets across the state of Acre very sporadically mapped, the Secretary of the Environment of the State of Acre has issued a request for any type of pre-flood data, focusing on buildings, roads and waterways in the following towns and cities, for each of which a respective project has been created on the HOT Tasking Manager to help coordinating the mapping efforts:

Contact

You can contact Vangelis Pitidis at v.pitidis@warwick.ac.uk, João Porto de Albuquerque at j.porto@warwick.ac.uk, Diego Pajarito Grajales at Diego.Pajarito@warwick.ac.uk, and Livia Castro Degrossi at liviadegrossi@gmail.com with any questions. We have also instructed our members to watch out for possible changeset comments and reply to them!

Hashtag

We've asked our contributors to use the hashtag #SOSAcre2021 with their edits.

Timeframe

This mapping campaign has been characterised as urgent and is expected to be officially launched on March 6 2021. There is no clear deadline, put the sooner the data is collected and validated, the better.

Imagery and other details

We will be using the HOT Tasking Manager and Maxar Premium Imagery (Beta) or Maxar Standard Imagery (Beta) imagery (depending on the area) for our mapping process.

We are inviting beginner mappers to focus on mapping buildings and roads and while we are welcoming intermediate and advanced mappers to support the validation process.

Participants

Our core team consists of the following OSM users:

There will be more volunteers participating and we'll ask them to link to this page in their user profile.

Training/Instructions

Moreover, in order to facilitate the Learning process, we are using the "LearnOSM" pages that target humanitarian mapping but we have also created a detailed tutorial on mapping with OSM in Portuguese along with a video tutorial.

We have included detailed instructions mapping in English and Brazilian Portuguese in the created every project page in the HOT Tasking Manager platform, along with instructions about specific areas and features mappers should focus on.

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