Disaster Radio is a mobile app for people who are affected by natural disasters like wildfires, floods, earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. The first release delivers updated wildfire maps to mobile devices and encourages social networking. Civilains can contribute to the firefighting effort by tweeting, bcause consolidated cowd-sourced data can be brought back to Incident Command. Detailed fire maps created for public safety operations are quickly delivered to civilian SmartPhones, Pads and any PC/Laptop web-browser. The intuitive moving-map fire visualization has pinch zoom. The app will locate nearby wildfires, and then continually update the map as new data becomes available. A hash tags is generated and eople are encouraged to tweet. Social networking geo-tag'd tweets are mapped next to updated wildfire GIS (Geographic Information System perimeters). The app runs atonumously for US wildfire without a special background server, oderator nor anyone to manage it. Organizing & geo-mapping tweets allows the public to better use that information during emergencies, and the Incident Command (IC) team too. Encouraging people to tweet improves the flow of useful information, and calms them because they are part of two way conversations. The third benefit is that public safety can crowd source helpful information while visualizing nearby risks. Having people's locations mapped will help the command team know where to watch for dangers.

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GIS maps stimulate social networking,
geo-tweets, crowd-source info
Mark Zaller
mszaller@DisasterRadio.org

2. Core Functions
• Updated detailed GIS maps, a lure that fulfills
• Easy for neophytes, depth for sophisticated
• Stimulate social networking, calms & informs
• Force Geo-tweets, maps those at risk
• Data-mining for Crowd-Sourced info to IC
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GIS to the people
evolved from AirborneGIS
• GeoMAC.gov Fresh fire perimeters
• Autonomous: no moderator or input
• Scales small. 1st person – 1st time
• Minimize bandwidth, offline resilient
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4. Click to see 1 min YouTube Demo of AirBorneGIS in use
over fires that DisasterRaido evolved from for Civilians

5. Twitter for fire
• Define #hashtag to firename
• Easy: Attract novices-satisfy veterans
– Eventually voice enabled and more
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• Encourage guided conversation
• People get Info & Participation
• Public Safety announcements
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6. Geo-enabled Tweets
• GPS is precise - cell towers ok
• See each other, band up to help
• Whose left behind, lost, at risk
• IC gets map of people locations
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7. Safer Perimeters
• Distant people are affected
• Supply info to the worried
• Attract help & aide
• Donate, Gawk, Volunteer
• Encourage safe distance
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8. Crowd Sourced data
• People locations help IC
• Analysts data-mine CrowdSource
• Ushahidi can create structure
• Who in IC team will accept data?
CalFire reluctant to release current maps
Crowd-source value encourages new maps
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9. Add-ons & options
Alert! Hurt!
Locate Family Scroll News
Find Me! Lost!
& Friends Emergency Radio
(mashup)
DisasterRadio
Cross Platform Geo-Located
Volunteer-Donate Video & Photos
I have / I need
Escape Routing Voice Recognition
around closures TTS - Translate
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Issues - Concerns
• Alert! Hurt! Find Me! Lost! Who is listening? Too easy?
Enable when staffed, priority tweet, Populate your own
emergency contacts, better than nothing
• 911 simply dials phone, Are you Sure? Disclaimers
• Help get people to follow evacuations
• Could burglars/looters use it?
Can’t address all concerns at first. Planning reduces
issues & more prepared for the unexpected
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11. What’s next?
• Funding to Release It! fix, evolve & iterate
• Keeping it alive: Profitable, funding, monetizing, subscription
– Winning hack-a-thons isn’t software engineering
• Strategy, Vision & Tactics
– Cross disciplinary governing board, crowd-source, organization
• Need a Team: Paid, Open-Source/GitHub, Volunteer, Non-
profit, Crisis-Mappers, University, Agency, board of experts
• Other disasters: Floods, earthquakes, heat waves, outages
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Funding needed
Mark Zaller
mszaller@DisasterRadio.org

13. Backup slide
Tactical GIS for ground firefighters
• Moving-Map GIS on iPhone/iPads now
– Get ATT or Verizon version, but service not needed
• Offline: Base topos, daily Fire GIS
– Safety – Fire Lines- Road Names
– Fire Point – Division Breaks
– Wifi updating during breakfast in firecamp/motel
– No 3G needed
• iOS software on Apple Apps Store now
– Avenza PDF Maps uses standard Fire PDFs
– Gaia GPS, free but paid is better