Web-based GIS
The next phase in GIS development on the internet should restore user freedom and give a fully comprehensive overview of geo-objects originating anywhere and containing all relevant information. It should...
The next phase in GIS development on the internet should restore user freedom and give a fully comprehensive overview of geo-objects originating anywhere and containing all relevant information. It should...
The CBERS Programme, a co-operative Chinese-Brazilian Earth Resources Satellites Programme with versatile cameras, has realised a vast success of the Brazilian data distribution policy that is leveraging research and business...
To monitor the environmental changes and find solutions in the vulnerable Sahel region, the AGRHYMET institute (AGRiculture, HYdrology and METorology) was established thirty years ago. AGRHYMET aims at collecting, processing...
GIS specialists in Africa are quickly seeing the horizon with respect to Geospatial Data Infrastructure (GDI); it is the bottom line that is proving elusive. Financial, budgeting and accounting measures...
In the city of Manica, a planning exercise based on the principles of participatory community planning is currently taking place in the Josina Machel neighbourhood. The city is one of...
The land surveying and registration system in Namibia covers only part of the country. There is frustration at the slow pace of planning, survey and registration of land rights and...
There is general agreement that spatial data is key to sustainable resource management and overall economic development. A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in turn provides the underlying foundation for accessing...
For the past ten years, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Technical Committee 211, Geographic information/Geomatics has been working on standards development. It is now completing an initial set of...
An integrated approach towards coastal zone management requires relevant, credible and reliable (geo-)data. However, the legends of geo-information covering coastal zones vary so much between the various European countries that...
Around six hundred participants attended the fifth conference of the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) held in Nairobi, Kenya from 17th to 22nd October 2004. The...
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