Using Data to Manage Emergency Situations
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 7:07 am
Content originally written by Carmen Rodríguez, intern at LUCA, and Javier Carro, Data Scientist within LUCA’s Big Data for Social Good area.
What would you say if we told you that data can help save lives? And if we could use it to help minimize the consequences of a natural disaster?
In LUCA’s Big Data for Social Good area, with have an area of research that focuses on the analysis of data relating to natural disasters (earthquakes, floods etc) with the aim of managing them better. You can watch an example of this work in this post about our collaboration with UNICEF.
The repercussions of such events shows itself in the way we sms gateway norway communicate in their aftermath. We call for help from emergency services, we call our friends to see if they are okay, and let our family though that we are safe. These human reactions are reflected in the mobile data from telephone networks and once suitably anonymized and aggregated, can be used to help manage such events.
On this occasion, we have studied the impact of the storm that took place in the Golfo de San Jorge region of Argentina between the 29th March and the 7th April 2017. This event had widespread news coverage for a number of days. Comodoro Rivadavia and Rada Tilly are two regions that are located in the basins of various rivers and their drainage systems. The storm dropped around 232mm on rain on the 29th, in a month where the average rainfall in Comodoro Rivadavia is a mere 20.7mm. This intense rainfall, when combined with the bursting of river banks that flow into the Atlantic Ocean, caused large floods in the city and led to the evacuation of thousands of people.
What would you say if we told you that data can help save lives? And if we could use it to help minimize the consequences of a natural disaster?
In LUCA’s Big Data for Social Good area, with have an area of research that focuses on the analysis of data relating to natural disasters (earthquakes, floods etc) with the aim of managing them better. You can watch an example of this work in this post about our collaboration with UNICEF.
The repercussions of such events shows itself in the way we sms gateway norway communicate in their aftermath. We call for help from emergency services, we call our friends to see if they are okay, and let our family though that we are safe. These human reactions are reflected in the mobile data from telephone networks and once suitably anonymized and aggregated, can be used to help manage such events.
On this occasion, we have studied the impact of the storm that took place in the Golfo de San Jorge region of Argentina between the 29th March and the 7th April 2017. This event had widespread news coverage for a number of days. Comodoro Rivadavia and Rada Tilly are two regions that are located in the basins of various rivers and their drainage systems. The storm dropped around 232mm on rain on the 29th, in a month where the average rainfall in Comodoro Rivadavia is a mere 20.7mm. This intense rainfall, when combined with the bursting of river banks that flow into the Atlantic Ocean, caused large floods in the city and led to the evacuation of thousands of people.