GISCorps volunteers contributed to this project by creating polygons of parking lots that are visible from space and indicative of human activity level changes. The project is using the volunteers’ products to track the temporal variation of such human activity over the polygons.
Food Aid Project, Inc. 501(c)(3) is a charitable purpose, nonprofit organization whose mission is to support food and economic security by increasing the efficiency of and access to the bulk food procurement and distribution network. They requested a GISCorps volunteer to…
The World Health Organization (WHO) has embarked on a new pilot project that integrates crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence (AI) to support polio outbreak response activities in Papua New Guinea. WHO requested the assistance of GISCorps volunteers to support this effort…
During Hurricane Florence, FEMA requested assistance from GISCorps to build a map journal to catalog and centralize all their activities and products. An urgent request resulted in recruiting Katie Pickett, a volunteer from Washington, D.C., for this project. Katie created…
From June 15th until July 29th 2018, William Ouellette, Senior GIS Engineer at TomTom BV in Gent, Belgium, was deployed to an on site mission in the Central African Republic (CAR). The request for a volunteer came from WWF (World…
Harris County Department of Education (HCDE) helps the 25 school districts in the state’s largest county meet the needs of all learners, by providing support to districts, educators and students. Services include professional development for educators, educator certification, business support…