Project Leader: Jason E. Steward
Recipient Institution: Janastu
Amount: USD 8,902
Duration: 10 Months
Commencement Date: May 2005

Project Abstract

The aftermath of the Southeast Asia tsunami has created a unique opportunity where various organizations and volunteers have come together to collectively work on the relief and rehabilitation efforts over a large geographical area. This has created sufficient interest and motivation for a large number of groups to coordinate their activities and their locative data.

Most of the groups and individuals have no access to expensive GIS or mapping technology, therefore this proposal proposes to add an Open Source GIS/Mapping solution into the existing Indian Tsunami Information Resource Center. Secondly, we will interface with the organizations and the agencies collecting tsunami data, training them on how to collect GIS data using GPS units, how to enter their data into the system, and how to use the system to visualize the data that has been collected.

Finally, we will release the Open Source GIS/Mapping solution as an independent software project that can be used by any organization to GIS-enable their data.