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USC's spatial crowdsourcing platform, MediaQ, collects pictures and videos during disasters.
The objective of the US team for this project is to devise effective techniques for comprehensive data collection. The challenge is that, during a disaster, the availability of information is spatially biased and some areas are not well covered by available information. Towards this end, USC's spatial crowdsourcing platform, dubbed MediaQ, is being utilized to collect pictures and videos on-demand from mobile devices of people in the vicinity of the disaster areas to facilitate effective collection, orchestration and aggregation of information.
Credit: Cyrus Shahabi, USC
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