Tropical Storm Dorian became a named storm on August 24th, battering the Windward and Leeward Islands of the Caribbean with strong winds and rains. It strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane on August 28th, and it continues to gain strength…
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. For this two-phase project, WHO requested the assistance of GISCorps volunteers.…
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…
During Hurricane Florence, FEMA requested assistance from GISCorps to build a map journal to catalog and centralize all their activities and products. An urgent request resulted in recruiting Katie Pickett, a volunteer from Washington, D.C., for this project. Katie created…
The Evolution of Emergency Copernicus Services (E2mC) Project, funded by the European Commission, was conceived to explore the integration of social media data mining, crowd-sourcing, and machine learning to improve the timeliness, accuracy, and precision of spatial data for rapid mapping…
The following post was authored by Volunteer Adam Hufnagel with contributions from Humanity Road's Cat Graham and photos provided for use by USCG Petty Officer 3rd Class Shannon Kearney. When a powerful storm hits, it takes the urgent and thoughtful…
Hurricane Florence made landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on the morning of September 14, 2018. Although it had been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane by that time, Florence’s extremely slow progress and broad circulation resulted in historic flooding,…