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URISA ANNOUNCES SIX NEW GISCORPS MISSIONS E-mail
Written by URISA   
09 March 2006
March 9, 2006 (PARK RIDGE, IL) – URISA’s GISCorps volunteers recently began six new missions as a result of its partnership with the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) Association.


Juna Papajorgji, the Co-chair and Co-founder of URISA’s GISCorps, led the effort to identify projects and volunteers to contribute to the global effort of building a Common National Spatial Data Infrastructure. Most of these projects – in Armenia, Hungary, Kenya, Mali, Marshall Islands, and Namibia – will make use of open source development environments and will use products built with OpenGIS specifications. All of the projects will be conducted remotely in support of major research and academic institutions in these countries.

 

Following is a list of projects and assigned GISCorps volunteers.

 

Country

Institution

Project

GISCorps Volunteer

Armenia

Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences.

Collecting and web publishing known volcanoes as they relate to geo-referenced topographic maps and DEM.

Ramasawamy Hariharan, University of California, Irvine, PhD Candidate

Hungary

Institute of Ecology and Botany, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Develop a spatial web portal to serve natural vegetation and landscape ecological maps.

Philippe Duchesne, Ionic Software, Belgium, GIS Programmer

Kenya

Marine and Fisheries Research Institute (KMFRI)

Web publishing of Kenya’s Oil Spill Contingency sensitivity atlas.

Dan Carey, Kentucky Geological Survey, University of Kentucky, Hydrologist

Mali

World Food Program 

Technical and policy support for the National Committee of Geographical Information (CNIG), in their effort to strengthen the country’s SDI.

Sarah Williams, Columbia University, Director of Geospatial Analysis and Remote Sensing

Marshall Islands

Environmental Protection Authority

Develop a geospatial web application for GIS data/metadata clearinghouse.

Yasser Ayad, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, Associate Professor

Namibia

National Botanical Research Institute

Server side programming to enhance Namibia’s Biodiversity Database (NADIB)

Sean Montague, ATS-Denver, Inc, Lead GIS/Web Programmer

 The Urban and Regional Information Systems Association (URISA) is considered to be the premier organization for the use and integration of spatial information technology to improve the quality of life in our urban and regional environments.

 Operating under the auspices of URISA, GISCorps coordinates short term, volunteer based GIS services to underprivileged communities.

 

For more information about URISA and GISCorps, visit www.urisa.org and www.giscorps.org

 
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