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Crowd Sourcing and Crisis Mapping
March 28, 2011 
You’ve no doubt heard about volunteers across the globe helping assist with Haitian, Libyan, and other crises by crowd sourcing: geolocating and tagging new reports and data from a wide variety of news sources like phones, web forms, tweets, email and more. By filtering for keywords and locating these reports on a map, a wide variety of emergency managers, researchers, and citizens can rapidly get a better feeling for late breaking information – well before a reporter or others have had time to synthesize the data into a summary or overview.
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Pacific NW Explores virtual USA for Situational Awareness and Continuity of Operations
February 10, 2011The Pacific Northwest is exploring solutions that can provide officials an overview of a regional event.
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