Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Archives

GIS Mentor Helped Global MapAid in Ethiopia

April 19, 2022
Former Core Committee Member
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, GISCorps Projects, Sustainability, Trainings

Global MapAid (GMA) is a US & UK based non-profit organization with a passion and vision to create maps that encourage solutions to human development problems. One current project involves the creation of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system in partnership…

Volunteer Mentors PhD Student for Project Finding Shallow Boreholes in Ethiopia

Global MapAid (GMA) is a US & UK based non-profit organization with a passion and vision to create maps for solving development problems. One current project involves the creation of an Artificial Intelligence system to help determine where to put…

Volunteers Assisting COVID-19 Human Activity Level Mapping

August 10, 2020
Shoreh Elhami
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Crowdsourcing, Data Collection/Creation, Featured Projects, GISCorps Projects, Remote Sensing

GISCorps volunteers contributed to this project by creating polygons of parking lots that are visible from space and indicative of human activity level changes. The project is using the volunteers’ products to track the temporal variation of such human activity over the polygons.

Screenshot of Validation grid with building points

Validation of Building Sites in Papua New Guinea

July 22, 2019
Shoreh Elhami
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Crowdsourcing, Disaster Response, GISCorps Projects, Humanitarian Response, Public Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) has embarked on a new pilot project that integrates crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence (AI) to support polio outbreak response activities in Papua New Guinea. WHO requested the assistance of GISCorps volunteers to support this effort…