Crowdsourcing with mobile techniques for crisis support

Within natural processes responsibilities from central authorities to local levels as first actors of civil protection is a changing pattern. Prevention and preparedness are long-term goals in natural hazards, based on capacities of professional volunteers, and awareness of the citizens as local inhabitants. MAppERS is based on human role as "crowd-sourced mappers" through mobiles application. The feedback from testing and the training courses aim to raising participation in a networked disaster response. The aim is designing and testing an app for mobile with a real-time dashboard platform for public citizens and volunteers of civil protection. Two pilot sites, including trainings on modules fixing, control usability and quality of the product. The synchronized platform offers the activity of cloud data collection with a central data dashboard. A first context of floods processes gathers data in simulations, with crowdsourcing achievement from local population, for proper awareness and long-term preparedness. A second context tests pre-emergency actions on field with rescue team, collecting state-of-art and condition of hazards.