Several years ago, Esri started a “Celebrating Lost Loved Ones” application to pay tribute to those lost to the opioid epidemic. Now, as countless lives are being lost to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the idea of building a…
On March 19, Esri's Disaster Response Program requested GISCorps assistance in helping to fill critical information gaps they were hearing from the user community in the response to the COVID-19 disease pandemic. The first task was for creating a nationwide…
Late on March 2 into the early morning of March 3, a series of devastating tornadoes touched down across Tennessee. On March 3, FEMA contacted the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) and GISCorps to request that volunteers…
A series of earthquakes struck southwestern Puerto Rico the week of January 5, 2020, the largest registering at 6.4 magnitude. The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) requested support from GISCorps & CEDR Digital Corps volunteers to mine…
Tropical Storm Dorian became a named storm on August 24th, battering the Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean with strong winds and rains. Over the coming days, it strengthened to a Category 5 storm, and stalled over Grand Bahama…
Building on a series of successful collaborations in the last year following Huricanes Florence, Michael, and Barry, NAPSG Foundation, CEDR Digital Corps, and GISCorps have been hard at work preparing for the remainder of the 2019 hurricane season. Together, we're…
Hurricane Barry made landfall near Intracoastal City, Louisiana on the afternoon of July 13, 2019. While barely reaching Category 1 status, the slow moving storm impacted areas which have been under continual flood threat throughout recent months. Accessibility to low…
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…
Report by Dave Hansen, GISP The Esri software provided to me through the GIS Service Pledge program for 2018 was largely used in the support of the American Red Cross for a variety of programs. The American Red Cross had…
The Camp Fire burned 153,336 acres in Butte County, California, in November 2018. The fire destroyed almost 14,000 residences, over 500 commercial buildings, and over 400 other structures in and around the city of Paradise. In the days and weeks…