What problems are we trying to solve?

• Lack of imagery for disaster response
• Although more and more available is not always easy to find
• Need of a simple way to find and access the imagery

Open Imagery Network

• Network of open licensed imagery (CC-BY-4.0)
• Distributed system
• Anyone can contribute with imagery

2 ways to contribute

1. Host an OIN node
2. Upload imagery using the uploader

What is OAM?

Set of tools for finding and sharing imagery

Catalog

Indexes imagery from OIN and makes it available through the API

{
  "meta": {
    "provided_by": "OpenAerialMap",
    "license": "CC-BY 4.0",
    "website": "http://beta.openaerialmap.org",
    "page": 1,
    "limit": 1,
    "found": 2371
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "_id": "571975932b67227a79b4faf4",
      "uuid": "http://hotosm-oam.s3.amazonaws.com/16APR19153537-PS8b-055228871010_01_P002.tif",
      "geojson": {
        "type": "Polygon",
        "coordinates": [...],
        "bbox": [...]
      },
      "meta_uri": "http://hotosm-oam.s3.amazonaws.com/16APR19153537-PS8b-055228871010_01_P002.tif_meta.json",
      "properties": {
        "thumbnail": "http://hotosm-oam.s3.amazonaws.com/16APR19153537-PS8b-055228871010_01_P002.tif.thumb.png",
        "tms": "http://oam-tiles.s3.amazonaws.com/ecuador-earthquake-priority-1.2/{z}/{x}/{y}.png",
        "sensor": "GE-01"
      }
      (...)
    }
  ]
}
            

Recent Improvements

Feedback form

Uploader

https://upload.openaerialmap.org/

Recent Improvements

Roadmap

• Simplify the contribution process
• Lower the barrier to share and publish
• Get more organizations to have OIN nodes

New tools

• PacDID - Applying OAM tools to the Pacific Islands (Nate Smith @nas_smith)
• POSM - Packaged system that can be used offline (American Red Cross)