Along with Dr. John Van Hoesen, Dr. Gary Hunter, a self-employed GIS consultant from Melbourne, Australia was deployed to Kabul, Afghanistan to teach GIS and remote sensing to the faculty at Kabul Polytechnic University. You can find John’s story in…
GISCorps volunteer develops Vulnerability Indices Web Map - Nepal By: Brian Baldwin In the aftermath of the Nepal Earthquake, getting access to information relevant to humanitarian programming has been a big problem. Baseline data are key to humanitarian response both…
GISCorps volunteer assisted with downloading and parsing OpenStreetMap – Syria The humanitarian and human rights communities are increasingly interested in the effects of conflicts and natural disasters on cultural heritage. Though not as pressing a concern as the immediate provision…
Advanced Spatial Analysis & Remote Sensing Training For faculty at Kabul Polytechnic University, Afghanistan John Van Hoesen, Green Mountain College View from the rooftop of the Darya Village Hotel looking southwest towards the Kabul Airport Background In July, 2015 I…
GISCorps assists on United Nations GeoTag-X project The United Nations imagery analysis program (UNITAR-UNOSAT) is underwriting a new crowdsource platform called GeoTag-X for analyzing photos and videos. The GeoTag-X platform was built and is being tested by the Citizen Cyberlab,…
TerraWatchers crowdsource project examines damage to archeological sites TerraWatchers is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing web-based, crowdsourced satellite image monitoring and overwatch tools for critical missions related to current events. The TerraWatchers platform was built by Stephen Savage and…
GISCorps Assists with Ebola Response Mapping for National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Volunteer: Ian Dunn, Software Specialist with the City of Perrysburg, Ohio Public health professionals are privy to much data: community demographics, restaurant scores, obesity…
GISCorps Volunteers Teach GIS and Remote Sensing at Kabale University in Uganda Background: The Department of Environment and Natural Resources at Kabale University (KAB) in southwestern Uganda requested GISCorps volunteer(s) to teach GIS/Remote Sensing to their faculty members. KAB intends…
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap’s Map4Nepal Project Forty-six GISCorps volunteers from 10 countries responded to the call for volunteers to the Nepal Earthquake in 2015 and digitized various features on OpenStreetMap shortly after the quake hit. In total volunteers logged over 440 hours.…
GISCorps Assists World Health Organization in Mapping Ebola Response Activities In December 2013, a two-year old child in a remote village in southeastern Guinea died from a then-unidentified disease. From that beginning arose the unprecedented West Africa Ebola outbreak which…