FONAFIFO is a Costa Rican government institution that provides payments to landowners who enter into contracts with the government to preserve forested lands, practice sustainable forest management, etc., in exchange for environmental services. FONAFIFO sought the assistance of a GISCorps volunteer…
GISCorps volunteers respond to 12 disaster response projects during and after hurricanes and earthquakes Summer 2017 was a busy year for GISCorps volunteers. After unprecedented consecutive natural disasters between June and November, 150 volunteers contributed over 1300 hours of their…
Summary Report By: David Hansen, GISP The project between GISCorps and Community Solutions (https://www.community.solutions/) began in September, 2016. Community Solutions intends to build an approach for addressing issues of safety, health, and prosperity that can be replicated in other communities.…
The Compassion Games are part of an international compassion movement that inspires participation in something greater than oneself. The Compassion Games help us to understand, connect, and learn from each other while co-creating a global culture of kindness. The Compassion Games…
Project Overview In late May 2017, the World Health Organization (WHO) approached GISCorps about conducting a short-term time-sensitive crowdsourcing project for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments with five partners –…
Author: Jon Schwichtenberg This project was developed to enable the Girl Scouts on Northern Illinois (GSNI) to assess their current membership and how their existing locations serve those members. The GSNI wanted to determine how to best serve current members and…
Authored by: Jason Harshman & Marc Guidry – June 2017 Summary GISCorps solicited volunteers Jason Harshman and Marc Guidry to assist Feeding America Riverside/San Bernardino (FARSB) in utilizing the Esri ArcGIS Online (AGO) platform to host and share geospatial content and…
Costa Rica’s National Forestry Financing Fund requested a GISCorps volunteer with expertise in conducting GIS Needs Assessments and providing recommendations for upgrading the geospatial information management system of Costa Rica’s National Forestry Financing Fund. Commissioned for Costa Rica’s National Forestry…
GISCorps helped build a new tool to improve access to vital information in emergency response The map filter project is a new technique being developed to help decision makers find the right information at the right time during emergency response. More…
In landscapes worldwide, agricultural trees provide valuable ecosystem services. These trees store a significant amount of carbon and could mitigate global climate change[1]. Agricultural trees also have tremendous value for biodiversity, providing refuges and stepping-stones for forest-dwelling animals in fragmented…