Hurricane Florence made landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on the morning of September 14, 2018. Although it had been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane by that time, Florence’s extremely slow progress and broad circulation resulted in historic flooding,…
Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a Category 4 hurricane on October 10, 2018, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph and life-threatening storm surges. The hurricane tore through the Florida Panhandle into Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia,…
Volunteers Ajinkya Jadhav, Alexis Handelman, Amanda Nunley, David Axelson, Elizabeth Robinson, Ellen Nodwell, Gergely Puskas, Holly Torpey, Jessica Beres, Karen Chadwick, Maria Barabas, Michael Ruppel, Richard Kotapish, Richard Cornell, Sofia Stouki, Tarig Ahmed and Wendi French Summary On August 24-28,…
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…
In early July, parts of Western Japan were devastated by a series of disasters caused by torrential rain, including landslides and severe flooding. One area hit particularly hard was the town of Mabi in Okayama prefecture, where flood waters as…
On August 9-12, 2018, 218 volunteers from 46 countries participated in a Mapathon to map structures in a focused area within 15 kilometers of the Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia borders. This Cross Border area has been identified as being at…
Summary On July 20-22, 2018, five volunteers participated in validating settlement names and locations within 15 kilometers of the Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia borders. This Cross Border area has been identified as being at high-risk for polio outbreaks and the…
This project was initiated by Grand Staircase Escalante Partners (GSEP) and Puente Institute as an effort to collect data from the public on observations and disturbances within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The collected data will then be used for formulating…
Over the weekend of 08-March-2018, 309 volunteers from around the world participated in a Mapathon to map structures in Tanganyika Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in support of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The event was hosted…
Cyclone Gita recently impacted areas of the South Pacific including New Zealand with hurricane-force winds and rain. The NZ GIS for Emergency Management Community (NZGIS4EM: https://community.esri.com/groups/nzgis4em) requested assistance from GISCorps volunteers in crowdsourcing damage photos for an online situational awareness map. Eleven GISCorps…