myHAZ-VCT Platform

myHAZ-VCT Platform

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    myHAZ-VCT Background

    myHAZ-VCT is a citizen science app for sharing your observations of natural hazards and environmental phenomena in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. A collaboration between The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre (SRC) in Trinidad and Tobago, the National Emergency Management Organisation (NEMO) of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the British Geological Survey (BGS), myHAZ-VCT is designed to provide scientists (SRC), emergency managers (NEMO) and citizens of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, with first-hand information about a range of natural hazards and environmental phenomena that occur in the country.

    Through the myHAZ-VCT app you can upload photos, videos and free-text descriptions on a range of natural hazards including flooding, storms, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and other environmental phenomena such as drought, ground subsidence and changes in water levels. In addition, there are more detailed, optional questions to answer to help scientists, emergency managers and your fellow citizens know what is going on across St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

    When a new observation is submitted, it is initially reviewed by myHAZ-VCT managers at SRC and NEMO, and then published in the app for other myHAZ-VCT users to view. A commenting facility within myHAZ-VCT lets users, SRC scientists and NEMO staff respond to observations, whilst SRC and NEMO can also send direct notifications to myHAZ-VCT users, such as further information and advice about ongoing hazards.

    myHAZ-VCT uses a citizen science approach for gathering valuable data on various natural hazards occurring in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Citizen science is the active involvement of the non-scientific public in scientific research. Since scientists and emergency managers cannot be everywhere, enlisting members of the public like you, in sharing observations on multihazards can provide a broader understanding of the impact and behaviour of these in your community. This information can be used by NEMO to respond more effectively to impacted communities as well as to develop robust hazard mitigation systems.

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    Platform Components

    The myHAZ-VCT Platform is made up of three core components

    myHAZ-VCT APP

    Submit observations of geological hazards and view details of active submissions from other users

    myHAZ-VCT MANAGER

    NEMO verifies that submitted observations are suitable for public display and can send hazard notifications to registered users

    myHAZ-VCT PORTAL

    Explore, visualise and download data about current and historic observations submitted through myHAZ-VCT App

    myHAZ-VCT APP

    Cross-platform application for data collection and simple data visualisations


    myHAZ-VCT MANAGER

    Local management of data, verification of submitted observations and targetted push notifications for registered users


    myHAZ-VCT PORTAL

    Public access to all submitted data, comprehensive filtering and data download in a range of interoperable formats


    VIEW PORTAL

    Co-developed by

    National Emergency Management Organisation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines

    University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre

    British Geological Survey

    myHAZ-VCT was developed using BGS ODA funding from the Global Geological Risk research platform in collaboration with the following organisations::

    National Emergency Management Organisation of St. Vincent and the GrenadinesUniversity of the West IndiesUniversity of the West Indies Seismic Research CentreBritish Geological Survey
    myHAZ-VCT Platform
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    British Geological SurveyUniversity of the West Indies - SRCNational Emergency Management Organisation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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