How are geospatial and location technologies aiding in understanding the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic? Here is a compilation of the innovative work from WGIC members and other key geospatial industry players.
COVID-19 Pandemic, Geospatial Information, and Community Resilience, with worldwide contributions focused on COVID-19 pandemic, provides interdisciplinary analysis and multi-sectoral expertise on the use of geospatial information and location intelligence to support community resilience and authorities to manage pandemics.
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One of the earlier dashboards we saw during the COVID-19 crisis was from the Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University (JHU). We also now find the University of Virginia, lavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford and the University of Wisconsin providing GIS-based dashboards. Here is a brief into their work.
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As the COVID-19 spread across the globe, The World Health Organization (WHO) took proactive steps to enable a global COVID-19 dashboard. This was then followed by regional level agencies and other organizations in the medical profession. Here is the list of five dashboards that we have found.
According to resources published by our patron member, Esri alone has enabled dashboards of two hundred and ten dashboards across eighty-eight countries.
WGIC came across the work from four global media brands – BBC, The Washington Post, The Financial Times and The New York Times. The most recommended work from this is the work titled ‘How the Virus Got Out’ from The New York Times.
The World Health Organization(WHO) has published a new COVID-19 Maps Dashboard. You can view the dashboard here.
Here is how WGIC member, Maxar Technologies has responded proactively in providing geospatial intelligence to global media to understand the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Join this webinar from Maxar Technologies to learn how geospatial data is essential for pandemic modeling.
From developing a geospatial visualization platform for real-time COVID-19 scenario to enabling customers to work-from-home, here is how WGIC Patron member, Hexagon AB, responding to the crisis.
Esri Inc., WGIC’s Patron member is actively working on providing maps, datasets, applications, and more for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This blog post provides a brief into their work.