Overview The PhotoMappers project is in its ninth year of providing situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency managers through crowdsourced photo geolocation during disasters. As in past years, PhotoMappers continues to be a collaboration between GISCorps, NAPSG Foundation,…
Overview Back for a seventh year of providing situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency managers, the PhotoMappers team got an early start to 2023 when a series of atmospheric rivers swamped most of California and a deadly tornado…
Overview Now in its sixth year of providing situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency managers, the PhotoMappers team is responding to the 2022 hurricane season. PhotoMappers is an ongoing partnership between NAPSG Foundation, CEDR Digital Corps, and GISCorps;…
Overview Now in its fifth year of providing situational awareness to federal, state, and local emergency managers, the PhotoMappers team is responding to the 2021 hurricane season. PhotoMappers is an ongoing partnership between NAPSG Foundation, CEDR Digital Corps, and GISCorps;…
2024 Update: Forthcoming 2023 Update: The 2023 #PhotoMappers Admin team included Jonathan Clementi, Brad Fisher, Mackenzie Fox, Hannah Gonzales, John Haddad, Hannah Larsen, Keith Johnson, Emilie Pratt, Jason San Souci, and Dacey Zelman-Fahm. Erin Arkison, Holly Torpey, and Katie Picchione continue as…
Early in 2020, long time partner, NAPSG (the National Alliance for Public Safety GIS), requested GISCorps volunteer support for the 2020 wildfire season. Wildfire initial attack is a dynamic period of time where information comes in from many disparate sources.…
Hurricane Laura became the first major hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic storm season as it trekked across the Gulf of Mexico towards the Louisiana/Texas border. The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) requested support from GISCorps volunteers for…
Hurricane Isaias was the second hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic storm season. The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) requested support from GISCorps volunteers for the long-standing Disaster Crowdsource Photos effort, to provide situational awarness to emergency managers. While the storm…
Hurricane Hanna became the first hurricane of the 2020 season on July 25,2020, brining heavy rain and storm surge flooding to South Texas. The National Alliance for Public Safety GIS Foundation (NAPSG) requested support from GISCorps volunteers for the long-standing…
Tropical Storm Cristobal formed in the Bay of Campeche on June 1st. After impacting Mexico, it moved north across the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall in Southeastern Louisiana on June 7, 2020. On June 5 in advance of the…