GISCorps volunteers assist in Ecuador Earthquake relief activities In April 2016, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake claimed the lives of over 650 people in north western Ecuador. Shortly after the quake, GISCorps was contacted by the Digital Humanitarian Network (DHN) to…
Crowdsource project documents coastal changes due to Hurricane Joaquin Nine GISCorps volunteers assisted with the USGS iCoast project after Hurricane Joaquin and a related Nor’easter caused extensive damage along the US east coast from South Carolina to New York in…
Afghanistan Earthquake GISCorps Response A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Afghanistan on October 26, 2015. Within hours the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) activated an online work project to support the local OpenStreetMap (OSM) community by digitizing features from existing imagery. In the…
Mapping Tool Showcases Research on Incidents in the Uyghur Homeland By Greg Fay The Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) has released an online webmap highlighting research from “Legitimizing Repression: China’s “War on Terror” Under Xi Jinping and State Policy in East Turkestan.” Based on…
Volunteers digitized features after Hurricane Patricia Hurricane Patricia was the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere in terms of barometric pressure and sustained winds. Patricia also grew faster than any Western Hemisphere storm on record, growing from a…
Geocoding Policy Holders Locations in Guatemala – MiCRO’s Initiative MiCRO (www.microrisk.org), a specialty re-insurance company, a social enterprise focused on the consequences of natural disasters, bridging the divide between the world’s insurance markets. It seeks to improve the livelihoods of…
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…