Quality analysis after action report for the crowdsourced aerial imagery assessment following hurricane sandy
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We present an after-action report for a large-scale damage assessment project that followed Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the Eastern seaboard of the USA in 2012. The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) took over 35,000 GPS-tagged images of damage-affected areas, as part of their mandate to provide aerial photographs for disaster assessment and response agencies, primarily FEMA, who used the aggregate geolocated data for situational awareness.
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