Hurricane Isaias was the second hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic storm season. The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) requested support from GISCorps volunteers for the long-standing Disaster Crowdsource Photos effort, to provide situational awarness to emergency managers. While the storm…
GISCorps volunteers Lisa Silva and Noah Krach conducted several short-term online GIS training sessions between July 14th and August 4th for 43 individuals from the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) of the World Health Organization (WHO). The training…
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.
Hurricane Hanna became the first hurricane of the 2020 season on July 25,2020, brining heavy rain and storm surge flooding to South Texas. The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) requested support from GISCorps volunteers for the long-standing…
A grassroots volunteer group in South India requested GIS and data analysis support to study the distribution and patterns of noncommunicable diseases in Bangalore (Bengaluru), a fast-growing metropolis and the capital of Karntaka Province. Volunteer Cole White took on this…
Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the Bay of Campeche on June 1st. After impacting Mexico, it moved north across the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in Southeastern Louisiana on June 7, 2020. On June 5 in advance of the…
One Shared Story is a volunteer-based non-profit organization founded in 2018. One Shared Story volunteers assist community groups in researching, preserving, and curating hidden histories. 18th and 19th century documents omit full names of women, enslaved persons, and people of…
Late on March 2 into the early morning of March 3, a series of devastating tornadoes touched down across Tennessee. On March 3, federal emergency managers contacted the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) and GISCorps to request…
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…
A series of earthquakes struck southwestern Puerto Rico the week of January 5, 2020, the largest registering at 6.4 magnitude. The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) requested support from GISCorps & CEDR Digital Corps volunteers to mine…