Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
As a member of the Digital Humanitarian Network, Esri has partnered with the Standby Task Force and GISCorps to create interactive maps documenting the impact of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda in the Philippines and Southeast Asia. Esri’s Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda...
Thursday, January 26th, 2012
The U.S.-based Urban and Regional Information System Association (URISA) has been coordinating global volunteer mapping projects since 2003. To date there have been 80 missions with nearly 250 volunteers deployed on such projects as disaster response, GPS...
Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Six URISA’s GISCorps volunteers were recruited to assist in mining various datasets in earthquake stricken areas of Japan. This mission is in collaboration with Crisis Commons http://crisiscommons.org. The mined and organized datasets will become available to the...