Volunteer from California teaching GIS in Zambia We have been assisting the South Luangwa Conservation Society (SLCS), a nonprofit organization based in Zambia, for the past few years with their GIS needs. They recently asked that we send one of our…
We received a request from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) shortly after super storm Sandy hit the northeastern US in October/November 2012. They were interested in deploying the “expert” crowd (GISCorps volunteers) on a crowdsourcing project that they launched shortly after the…
The National Map Corps Colorado Pilot Project GISCorps volunteers assist in mapping emergency services, schools, and other structures for The National Map By David Litke, GISCorps volunteer Summary In November 2012, GISCorps received a request from the U.S. Geological Survey…
Assessing Land Use/Land Cover Change in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Morogoro Region Project coordinated by Mercy Ojoyi, Environmentalist, University of Kwazulu-Natal and Wami Ruvu Basin Office, Tanzania; Techical support by GISCorps Volunteer, Imroz Raihan Introduction This project was initiated…
Lecturer on GIS Development and Practices in the US: A GISCorps Mission in Russia By: Bill Huxhold The GISCorps has collaborated with the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) in its Small Grants Program since 2005. In November 2011, South…
Satellite Radar and GIS Volunteers Detect Hurricane Sandy Damage Sang-Ho Yun1&3*, Alessandro Coletta2, Eric Fielding1, Shoreh Elhami3, Tom Farr1&3, Donald Ferguson4&3, John Helly5&3, Richard Butgereit6, Frank Webb1, Paul A. Rosen1, Mark Simons7, Hook Hua1, Susan Owen1 Affiliations: 1 Jet Propulsion…
GISCorps volunteers assist in a Search & Rescue pilot project in California Update - January 2014 On January 23rd, 2014, Search and Rescue GISCorps team members were sworn in as disater service workers Thanks to the hard work of the GISCorps and California…
SAR analysis, data mining & GIS mapping of the Central Mediterranean to document the violations of migrants’ rights & deaths at sea Summer 2012 report of GISCorps’s contribution to Forensic Oceanography By: Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths,…
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…