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…
The nonprofit, volunteer-run Texas Justice Initiative (TJI) provides the public with data about aspects of the Texas criminal justice system. Through TJI's interactive data portal, journalists, researchers, policymakers, advocates and the general public can query, visualize, and download public information…
Happy Valley Heights Homeowners Association (HOA) is a ~300-home neighborhood in Northwestern Oregon. In September, they requested services from GISCorps to map green spaces containing older second-growth forests and wetlands in their neighborhood. Volunteer Curtis Day assisted in the effort…
The Apalachee Regional Planning Council (ARPC) is a multi-purpose agency that was created in 1977, one of ten Regional Planning Councils in the state of Florida. The ARPC provides technical assistance in the areas of economic development, emergency planning, transportation,…
Tropical Storm Dorian became a named storm on August 24th, battering the Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean with strong winds and rains. Over the coming days, it strengthened to a Category 5 storm, and stalled over Grand Bahama…
Seeds of Hope, the food justice ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, is working with GISCorps to establish a spatial asset management dataset and build associated web applications. Seeds of Hope was established to repurpose church property and…
Hurricane Barry made landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana on the afternoon of July 13, 2019. While barely reaching Category 1 status, the slow moving storm impacted areas which have been under continual flood threat throughout recent months. Accessibility to low…
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…
The Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) is the largest organization in the Washington DC metro area working to solve hunger and its companion problems: chronic under-nutrition, heart disease, and obesity. By delivering food directly into neighborhoods considered to be food…
As part of their efforts to fight a polio outbreak in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Horn of Africa polio office is monitoring cases of acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) in health facilities throughout Kenya. To facilitate…