GISCorps Projects and GIS Service Pledge Projects include a wide variety of applications and technologies.
GISCorps Crowdsource Project Documents Coastal Changes Due To Hurricane Sandy By David Litke, GISCorps volunteer Summary In September 2014, GISCorps received a request from the U.S. Geological Survey for a group of volunteers to take part in a pilot study…
GISCorps supporting NetHope with mapping information and communication needs in West Africa In October, GISCorps was contacted by Crisis Informatics expert Jennifer Chan and began providing initial support for NetHope to support their NetHope Ebola Response Project. By November a team…
Partnering with Stand By Task Force (SBTF) – Typhoon Hagupit/Ruby in Philippines As Typhoon Hagupit/Ruby threatened the Philippines, the Digital Humanitarian Network was activated to assist with response. Stand By Task Force (SBTF) took the lead in organizing volunteers to…
Mapping of Malakal, Nsanje District (Partnered with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team - HOT) Volunteers: Tim Hohn (Project Manager), Heather Milton (GISCorps Project Manager), Jared Pilbeam, Takeo Shibata, Ian Cable, Alison DeGraff, Laxman Sharma, Oula Seitsonen, Snead Prasad, Suthakaran Sundaralingham, Katie Pickett,…
Mapping of Malakal, South Sudan (a partnership with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) GISCorps partnered with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) to map the city of Malakal, South Sudan to provide baseline data for the humanitarian response to the ongoing conflicts between government…
GISCorps-Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Projects OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) projects typically arise from an immediate humanitarian need, and provide valuable information assets during a crisis…
GISCorps volunteer assists in launching an ArcGIS Online Portal The World Federation for Coral Reef Conservation (WFCRC), a US non-profit organization requested the assistance of a database and geo-portal design specialist to develop a geo-portal using ArcGIS Online for Organization…
Modeling Change Patterns in Nguru Forest in the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania This project was initiated as a small grant request from the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) by the University of Kwazulu-Natal and the Wami Ruvu Basin Water Office…
GISCorps volunteer in Kabul, Afghanistan The Afghanistan Environmental Data Centre (AEDC), a co-operative venture between UNEP and the National Environmental Protection Agency (NEPA), funded by UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the government of Estonia, requested the assistance of a seasoned GIS…
Philippines Typhoon Online Maps Request from GSMA A request to map cell phone outages/coverage at the administrative boundary level 2 and Province level came to DHNetwork and GISCorps volunteer, Isabel Canete-Medina from Chicago responded to the call and created the…