GISCorps volunteer assisted in geolocating child-mother clinics in Chiapas, Mexico In late 2010, Juan Del Toro, a GIS professional with Instituto de Información Territorial del Estado de Jalisco, was selected for a project in Chiapas, Mexico. The project was brought to us…
Mission with the Geographic Resources for Development Center (GRDC) - Nigeria Geographical Resources for Development Centre (GRDC) metadata clearing house node is now open to the public. The clearing house can be accessed by navigating through the GRDC website. The clearing…
Assisting an NGO (ICOMOS) to preserve historic structures in Haiti International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) is an international non-governmental organization of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites. They are interested in identifying historic structures in Haiti…
Post Disaster Assistance in Shkodra, Albania Nine of our volunteers have concluded their tasks for a project in Shkodra region of Albania. The project was commissioned by Free Libre Open Source Software Kosovo (FLOSSK), a non-profit organization in Kosovo. FLOSSK…
Providing ArcGIS Server Support to a Non Profit Organization in New Orleans, LA Project Update – August 2011 WhoData.org Program Update submitted by Michelle M. Thompson, PhD and WhoData Program Manager on 19 August 2011: - The WhoData website exceeded 1 million…
Satellite Image Analysis Conducted for a Project In Vietnam “I was honored to be selected to represent GISCorps on this noble project. It was exciting to see how the change detection results validated what they were seeing in the field.”…
Mission with (iMMAP/WFP) - North Korea Click below for a video demonstrating the hard work of GISCorps volunteers on this project January 2015 Progress Map May 2014 Progress Map November 2014 Progress Map Here’s the latest report from DPRK management team: ***Drum Roll*** The…
K-12 Project: GISCorps Volunteer Helps 4-H youth to identify invasive plants, Hamilton County, TN In February 2009, the UT-TSU Extension office in Chattanooga, TN requested a GISCorps volunteer to help them install the ArcView software onto their new computers and…
Two GISCorps volunteers from Calgary assist in a project in Panama The Fuquay-Varina Rotary (FVR) club sought GISCorps volunteers’ assistance to develop an online questionnaire to conduct a survey in poor neighborhoods of Panama. The objective was to locate and…
Mission with South Luangwa Conservation Society - Zambia In March 2009, GISCorps received a request from South Luangwa Conservation Society (SLCS), an NGO in Mfuwe, Zambia. The SLCS is a non-profit community based organization committed to the conservation of the local…