Introduction American Leprosy Missions (ALM) is a global organization that serves persons affected by leprosy and related diseases, helping them to be healed in body and spirit and restored to lives of dignity and hope. ALM works to cure and…
GISCorps volunteers contributed to this project by creating polygons of parking lots that are visible from space and indicative of human activity level changes. The project is using the volunteers’ products to track the temporal variation of such human activity over the polygons.
Food Aid Project, Inc. 501(c)(3) is a charitable purpose, nonprofit organization whose mission is to support food and economic security by increasing the efficiency of and access to the bulk food procurement and distribution network. They requested a GISCorps volunteer to…
In landscapes worldwide, agricultural trees provide valuable ecosystem services. These trees store a significant amount of carbon and could mitigate global climate change[1]. Agricultural trees also have tremendous value for biodiversity, providing refuges and stepping-stones for forest-dwelling animals in fragmented…
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…
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,…