GISCorps Projects and GIS Service Pledge Projects include a wide variety of applications and technologies.
We received a request from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) shortly after super storm Sandy hit the northeastern US in October/November 2012. They were interested in deploying the “expert” crowd (GISCorps volunteers) on a crowdsourcing project that they launched shortly after the…
Assessing Land Use/Land Cover Change in the Eastern Arc Mountains in Morogoro Region Project coordinated by Mercy Ojoyi, Environmentalist, University of Kwazulu-Natal and Wami Ruvu Basin Office, Tanzania; Techical support by GISCorps Volunteer, Imroz Raihan Introduction This project was initiated…
Lecturer on GIS Development and Practices in the US: A GISCorps Mission in Russia By: Bill Huxhold The GISCorps has collaborated with the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI) in its Small Grants Program since 2005. In November 2011, South…
Satellite Radar and GIS Volunteers Detect Hurricane Sandy Damage Sang-Ho Yun1&3*, Alessandro Coletta2, Eric Fielding1, Shoreh Elhami3, Tom Farr1&3, Donald Ferguson4&3, John Helly5&3, Richard Butgereit6, Frank Webb1, Paul A. Rosen1, Mark Simons7, Hook Hua1, Susan Owen1 Affiliations: 1 Jet Propulsion…
SAR analysis, data mining & GIS mapping of the Central Mediterranean to document the violations of migrants’ rights & deaths at sea Summer 2012 report of GISCorps’s contribution to Forensic Oceanography By: Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani, Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths,…
Volunteers assisted in a disaster preparedness project in Indonesia Earlier this year, eleven GISCorps volunteers were deployed to a project with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT). This was our second collaborative project with HOT (first one in Samoa) and this time the work…
Two GISCorps volunteers assisted the Wichita Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma By: Lacey Mason & Gericke Cook (GISCorps Volunteers) Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, USFWS Staff and Volunteers The Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge (WMWR) encompasses 59,020 acres in Comanche County, Oklahoma. Established in 1901 as…
GISCorps volunteer taught GIS to K-12 students in Albania The Urban and Regional Planning department at the University of Florida (UF) , in partnership with the Albanian-American foundation Martin and Mirash Ivanaj (whose mission is to promote science and education amongst…
Conducting Change Detection in Chimanimani National Preserve, Mozambique By Kerry Brooks & Madyo Couto This project was commissioned by the Transfrontier Conservation Areas Unit of Ministry of Tourism in Mozambique. The Ministry asked for short term assistance of a remote…
In March 2009, GISCorps received a request for volunteer from South Luangwa Conservation Society (SLCS), an NGO in Mfuwe, Zambia. SLCS is a non-profit, community based organization committed to the conservation of the local wildlife and natural resources of South…