The E2mC Project: An Innovative Approach to combine Social Media and Crowdsourcing for

Rapid Mapping

Copernicus EMS WorkshopMay 21st – 22nd 2019 | Stresa

D. Grandoni, e-GEOS

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Why E2mC?

Copernicus EMS - Mapping

…timeliness…not yet fully achieved…

…most of the delay is concentrated in the availability of the first usable post event

satellite image…

…map production throughput…

…quality…

…broadening the current scope of the EMS service…

…enlarging the Copernicus EMS range of use…

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E2mC Objective & Vision

Demonstrating

the technical and operational feasibility of theintegration of social media analysis andcrowdsourcing within the full Copernicus EMS(Mapping and Early Warning)

Developing

a) a prototype of the innovative CopernicusWitness, a new EMS Service Componentconceived to exploit social media analysis andcrowdsourcing capabilities oriented to improveinformation management for emergencyresponders

b) a prototype of the Social Crisis Map, a newProduct type of the EMS Portfolio

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E2mC vision – The Solution

Video features

extraction

Today the handling of “unconventional” data (e.g. Twitter, news, …) is fully manual.

E2mC provides tools to make this process as much as possible automated

News and social media crawling,

filtering and geolocalization

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E2mC vision – (Social) Media & Crowdsourcing

(Social) Media Crowdsourcing

…as a source of information……as a tool to gather and share information…

…as a platform to create, motivate and maintaincrowdsourcing communities…

…as a resource multiplier……as a tool to tag (social) media contents…

E2mCSocial&Crowd

Platform

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E2mC Idea – Combining AI, social media and crowdsourcing for improved flood detection

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E2mC Idea – Use of social media for hydraulic modelling verification

In partnership with

Hurricane HarveyHouston (Texas)August 2017

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The E2mC Project – The architecture

Early Warning Component

Manual Activation

Crowdsourcing

Natural Language

Processing +

Artificial Intelligence

Hot Spot Analysis

Social Networks +

News AggregatorsWebGIS Platform

Data Crawling Data analysisService activation Data API Data exploitation

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The E2mC workbench

The Witness WebGIS The Crowd4EMS platform

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LIVE DEMO http://witness-dev.egeos-services.it/E2MC/#/

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The Witness AI: exploiting images to detect Flooded areas

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The Witness Algorithms: NLP to extract the post geolocation

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The Crowd4EMS Platform: enhancing geolocation by using the crowd

Thank you