GISCorps Projects and GIS Service Pledge Projects include a wide variety of applications and technologies.
GISCorps Volunteer assists Local 4-H'ers in using GPS/GIS to map Barn Quilts of Sac County, Iowa In September 2007, Carol Ehlers, Northwest 4-H Youth Field Specialist from Iowa State University (ISU) Extension office requested assistance for their Sac County Barn…
GISCorps Volunteer Conducts GIS Needs Assessment in Mozambique By Fernando Sedano, GISCorps Volunteer In early November, GISCorps volunteer Fernando Sedano of Berkeley, California headed to Mozambique to conduct a GIS Needs Assessment. This project is in partnership with Agriculture Development…
K-12 Project in Oxford, Ohio GISCorps volunteers assisted Caching Our World, a K-12 non profit organization, in conducting several events during the Geography Awareness Week. This was a collaborative effort between Caching Our World, Miami University, and a number of…
GIS Community Development Through Community Cooperation: Collier County 4-H, Collier County School Board & GISCorps By Darryl Clare, PhD, GISCorps Volunteer & Anna Galdames, Collier County 4-H The Collier County GIS Community Development Project will provide the children, youth, and…
GISCorps Volunteer teaches GIS to Gulf Coast Community Design Studio team in Biloxi, MS By Christine Cerqueira Gaspar, GCCDS The Gulf Coast Community Design Studio (GCCDS) is a nonprofit organization, affiliated with the Mississippi State University College of Architecture, Art…
GISCorps Volunteer Mentors/Advises in a Project in Hunza Valley in Northern Pakistan By Miguel Garriga, Geographic Systems, LLC, GISCorps Volunteer I originally joined GIS Corps in 2004, shortly after finding out more about the group at the ESRI Conference. I…
On April 5th, 2007, the second Afghanistan volunteer mission was launched. This mission is also in partnership with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and Afghanistan Information Management Services (AIMS) and our volunteer, Chen Li, will spend one month of…
GISCorps Helps United Nations High Commission for Refugees Map Resources for Refugees in Cairo, Egypt By Mark Salling, GISCorps Core Committee This past fall, Lori Quinn, from North Carolina, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission, was deployed to a UNHCR project that involved…
First GISCorps Mission – Kabul, Afghanistan On May 6th, 2005, Shoreh Elhami traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan as a GISCorps volunteer. As the plane flew over the Hindu kush at an average altitude of 5000 meters, the vastness and beauty of…
GISCorps Team Worked Remotely from the US for Little Andaman Islands of India In partnership with SEEDS India and MapAction, a seven member team created various datasets for the Little Andaman Islands of India which were severely affected by the…