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…
See current crowdsourcing work from NAPSG and GISCorps on the NAPSG 2020 Crowdsourced Photos Hub 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 Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a Category 4 hurricane on October 10, 2018, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph and life-threatening storm surges. The hurricane tore through the Florida Panhandle into Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia,…
In early July, parts of Western Japan were devastated by a series of disasters caused by torrential rain, including landslides and severe flooding. One area hit particularly hard was the town of Mabi in Okayama prefecture, where flood waters as…
Cyclone Gita recently impacted areas of the South Pacific including New Zealand with hurricane-force winds and rain. The NZ GIS for Emergency Management Community (NZGIS4EM: https://community.esri.com/groups/nzgis4em) requested assistance from GISCorps volunteers in crowdsourcing damage photos for an online situational awareness map. Eleven GISCorps…
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…
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 –…
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…