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USC Dornsife students chart out unknown territory to help rescue efforts Through a three-day “Mapathon,” students help plot out the geography of some of the world’s most remote, unmapped regions to improve humanitarian efforts following disasters. [4¼ min read] December 14, 2020 In a 72-hour event, students from USC and UCLA help map remote areas of the globe. This year’s focus: uncharted areas in Indonesia. (Images source: Pixabay.) When an earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, people around the globe were horrified by the death and devastation that came in its wake. But a global response to the disaster quickly took shape among Haitians, Haitian emigres and others around the world who sought ways to transform their knowledge of the country into concrete information that could help guide rescue efforts.