The volunteer team included Stefan Geens, who blogs about Google Earth on Ogle Earth, and who managed among other things the BrightEarth project website.
The work of creating the map layers was shared out among me (Declan Butler); Mikel Maron of WorldKit and GeoRSS fame; Tim Caro-Bruce, a programmer for Amazon's www.a9.com; Lars Bromley of AAAS; and Brian Timoney, an ex-US marine who now runs a mapping consultancy.
Others chipped in to further the wider BrightEarth project, including Paul Currion, a humanitarian consultant, and Firoz Verjee, a researcher at the Institute for Crisis, Disaster & Risk Management at George Washington University. Numerous individuals across the United Nations and other agencies also contributed advice and data.
Andria Ruben McCool, a former employee at Google, and whose family include Holocaust survivors, helped to promote the project within Google. Much of the core data, such as roads, refugee camp numbers, destroyed villages and so on was provided by the UN Humanitarian Information Centre for Darfur.
Satellite pictures and close-up photos provide an intimate look at Darfur.
Credit: Google Earth