GISCorps Projects and GIS Service Pledge Projects include a wide variety of applications and technologies.
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…
Volunteers assist in three phases of a disaster simulation in Samoa The United Nations Platform for Space-Based information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-Spider) held a one day event in Geneva in mid November 2011. Running a disaster simulation in…
Volunteers assisting in data cleansing of health facilities in Libya At the request of the World Health Organization (WHO),GISCorps volunteers were deployed to a data cleansing project in Libya. The dataset included the locations of health facilities around the country. The…
Volunteering with a non profit organization in Montgomery County, MD By: Rob George; a GISCorps volunteer from Pennsylvania -- he started working with Identity Inc. in early 2011. GISCorps assisted a US based nonprofit organization, Identity Inc., with analyzing and mapping a…