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…
In March 2009, GISCorps received a request for volunteer from South Luangwa Conservation Society (SLCS), an NGO in Mfuwe, Zambia. SLCS is a non-profit, community based organization committed to the conservation of the local wildlife and natural resources of South…
Volunteers assist in three phases of a disaster simulation in Samoa The United Nations Platform for Space-Based information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-Spider) held a one day event in Geneva in mid November 2011. Running a disaster simulation in…
Volunteers assisting in data cleansing of health facilities in Libya At the request of the World Health Organization (WHO),GISCorps volunteers were deployed to a data cleansing project in Libya. The dataset included the locations of health facilities around the country. The…
Volunteering with a non profit organization in Montgomery County, MD By: Rob George; a GISCorps volunteer from Pennsylvania -- he started working with Identity Inc. in early 2011. GISCorps assisted a US based nonprofit organization, Identity Inc., with analyzing and mapping a…