Presentation on the new field of Crisis Mapping based on the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s 2-year Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning

This is a presentation on the new field of Crisis Mapping based on the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative’s 2-year Program on Crisis Mapping and Early Warning.

Introduction to Crisis Mapping from PatrickMeier on Vimeo.

The topics covered in this presentation include:

1. Crisis Map Sourcing – information collection;
2. Mobile Crisis Mapping – mobile technology;
3. Crisis Mapping Visualization – data visualization;
4. Crisis Mapping Analysis – spatial analysis.

The presentation references several blog posts in addition to several operational projects to illustrate the main concepts behind crisis mapping.