Ivan Buendia Gayton
Ivan Buendía Gayton works at the nexus of humanitarianism, technology, and human rights. Prior to joining HOT in 2017, he worked for fifteen years with Médecins Sans Frontières in various capacities including Head of Mission, field logistician, Humanitarian Affairs Officer, and GIS and Technological Innovation Advisor, and served on the board of directors of MSF-Canada. He co-founded the Missing Maps project, worked on medical records for Ebola, and created the MapSwipe mobile mapping application. He is an advocate of Free Software, and considers it critical to racial justice and equity, particularly in the aid sector, and believes that “local people, local devices, and open knowledge” are key to effective humanitarian tech and inclusion. He works on local manufacturing of drones in low-income settings, and low-cost, high-precision surveying for community and smallholder land rights.
Intervention
With the high costs and limited access to high resolution aerial imageries, there is a growing need to capacitate local mapping communities with the prerequisite technology and skills to create aerial imageries at a cost effective rate. The Drone Tasking Manager, OpenDroneMap and low cost drones are essential in achieving this feat.
HOT, alongside Freetown City Council, OpenStreetMap Sierra Leone and CODOHSAPA / FEDURP have just completed a city-wide drone imagery acquisition campaign, using an open community drone model, where city residents flew, processed and uploaded 75km2 of high resolution aerial imagery and 3d models for Freetown’s urban area.
This workshop would introduce participants to the Freetown campaign, the technology used to and help them to plan and execute on their own city wide community drone mapping campaigns
Participants will experience how to design and build flight plans at a city scale, transfer flight plans to drones, and then download and process the resulting images.