Cyclone Winston Pro Bono Rapid Disaster Mapping,

Date imagery provided by on-ground T+T personnel and images provided by NZDF to analyse the damage February 2016 and create damage maps, which were uploaded on Total cost of project to the Winston Viewer. T+T liaised with key Pro bono international NGOs, and international aid organisations to expedite the humanitarian aid Referee response and recovery phase. The “click and see” GIS Michael Arunga Obare, Information Management viewer had the capability to present many layers of Officer, United Nations Office for the Coordination of critical information, including ’s path Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), Office of the Pacific, and buffer distances, the geo-location of images , Fiji. (which also opened selected post-disaster images), evacuation centres, Red Cross stations and their Project overview focus areas, road statuses and regional scale building As Cyclone Winston approached Fiji on 19 February, damage mapping. This allowed first responders to 2016, Tonkin + taylor (T+T), aware of its deadly prepare and equip themselves appropriately for the potential, decided to offer its services pro bono relief effort and to avoid “no go” hazard areas, thereby and quickly established a bespoke Project Orbit enhancing their safety. platform, the Cyclone Winston Viewer for UNOCHA and the wider humanitarian community. On 20 Services provided February, the Category 5 cyclone struck Fiji, causing Hazard assessment, technology and innovation; widespread devastation across many of the nation’s emergency/post-disaster response; rapid disaster 330 islands, its 310 km/h peak winds and massive mapping; information services; hosting of critical storm surges sweeping away homes, destroying data; data analysis; liaison with, and support for, crops and infrastructure, and killing 44 people. the Government of Fiji, NGOs, a wide range of aid Almost 350,000 people were affected and losses agencies, also RNZAF, RAAF, UNOCHA and the New were estimated at $USD 250 million. For the first Zealand Government. time, a web-based information portal was made Sectors accessible to all relief agencies, Government and Non- • Natural hazards resilience Government Organisations (NGOs) in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster affecting a Pacific • Transport island nation. Making factual spatial information • Buildings available as soon as possible is fundamental to • Emergency aiding an efficient, effective natural disaster response and recovery. Hosted in Auckland on our secure, robust server, rapid disaster mapping deployed

001 Performance Key personnel The application of the lessons from T+T’s Canterbury Principal engineers earthquake response to a major natural disaster in • John Leeves Fiji has become the gold standard for post-disaster • Peter Quilter - Coastal engineer and drone data gathering, analysis and dissemination across the Pacific. Since it was first developed out of the operations expert Canterbury Earthquake Sequence, it has proven • Nick Rogers effective in Fiji, Kaikōura and, more recently, Sulawesi, Support staff Madagascar, and following ’s impact on – for which T+T again provided assistance pro • Kathryn Longstaff - Natural hazards analyst bono. “A particularly novel and positive development was the collaboration between Tonkin + Taylor and NZDF, integrating surveillance photographs onto T+T maps, providing a coherent and country-wide visual damage assessment that helped inform NDRF member relief planning.” - Council for International Development: “A Softer Landing, Winston After-Action” Report, 2016.