GISCorps volunteer returns from a World Vision mission in Sierra Leone In September 2012, Jim Tobias, a Senior GIS Developer with Northrop Grumman in Atlanta GA, was deployed to an onsite mission in Sierra Leone. The request for volunteer came…
Volunteers assisted in a disaster preparedness project in Indonesia Earlier this year, eleven GISCorps volunteers were deployed to a project with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT). This was our second collaborative project with HOT (first one in Samoa) and this time the work…
Supporting a set of humanitarian field experiments in Camp Roberts GISCorps volunteer, Yamini Manickam, supported a set of humanitarian field experiments in Camp Roberts, California on August 15th. Yamini is a GIS professional from California and has expertise in remote sensing…
Two GISCorps volunteers assisted the Wichita Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma By: Lacey Mason & Gericke Cook (GISCorps Volunteers) Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, USFWS Staff and Volunteers The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge (WMWR) encompasses 59,020 acres in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Established in 1901 as…
GISCorps volunteer taught GIS to K-12 students in Albania The Urban and Regional Planning department at the University of Florida (UF) , in partnership with the Albanian-American foundation Martin and Mirash Ivanaj (whose mission is to promote science and education amongst…
Conducting Change Detection in Chimanimani National Preserve, Mozambique By Kerry Brooks & Madyo Couto This project was commissioned by the Transfrontier Conservation Areas Unit of Ministry of Tourism in Mozambique. The Ministry asked for short term assistance of a remote…
SAR analysis of vessel presence in the Central Mediterranean By:Charles Heller, Lorenzo Pezzani (Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London); Situ Studio, New York; Lawrence Fox III, Humboldt State University Emeritus Professor of Remote Sensing & consultant, (GISCorps volunteer)…
USAID Crowdsourcing project (a 3-phased project) By David Litke (GISCorps volunteer) with additions from the USAID case study with permission from USAID Earlier this year, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) requested the assistance of GISCorps volunteers for USAID’s…
GISCorps volunteers tested an application for a non profit organization The Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) requested the assistance of several GISCorps volunteers for testing an application. GICHD, an international expert organization legally based in Switzerland as a…
Geocoding Locations of NGOs in Sierra Leone Abstract/Summary Non-government organization (NGO) activity in developing countries is difficult to track because of limited infrastructure. URISA’s GISCorps, which coordinates short-term, volunteer-based GIS services to underprivileged organizations and communities, was asked to assist…