Overview

Geospatial analysis involves the collection, manipulation and displaying of data that have geographic coordinates.

IMOs with mapping skillset spent most of their time identifying trends and relationships between humanitarian issues and places to provide complete picture of humanitarian situations.

Mapping and Geospatial Analysis - Examples

• United Nations Institute for Training and Research post-Typhoon Haiyan geospatial analysis for the Philippines

• Digital Humanitarian Network Maps

• Humanitarian Gap Analysis The purpose of gap analysis is to identify a difference between the desired state and the actual state

• HIC Darfur - Map of IDP Camp in Excel.xls (The Darfur map shows a creative use of basic technology for displaying cartographic information) 

Other Resources

Articles and Reports:

• Humanitarianism in the Network Age

• Geospatial Responses to Disasters: The Role of Cyberspace
  Background discussion on humanitarian mapping by ESRI

• World Disaster Report

Community and Open Source Network:

• Humanitarian Open Street Map 

• Crisis Mappers Network