July issue SDI-Africa newsletter

SDI-Africa has released the July 2007 issue of its electronic newsletter.

Spatial Data Infrastructure - Africa (SDI-Africa) is a free, electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa.  The July 2007 issue includes (among many other items):

- Kenya NSDI standards seminar and documents
- South Africa's earth observation satellite launch postponed
- Nigeria: 90 percent of Nigerian geo-physical survey completed with surprises
- Lidar aerial survey completed for multi million dollar SAO Tome development project
- GEO-AQUIFER: using satellite imagery to manage transboundary groundwater resources
- ESRI expands its international distributor network with the opening of ESRI Eastern Africa  - Application of remote sensing for the integrated management of ecosystems and water resources
- Africa validates a proposal for a Charter on Statistics
- Google sets up base in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Society for Conservation GIS-Kenya Conference - Geospatial Technology for Biodiversity Conservation and Management, Nairobi, Kenya, July 18-20, 2007
- Expert Group Meeting of Land Registrars in Africa - Call for Nominations and Participants. Deadline: 15 July 2007.
- Call for papers: 10th International Conference for Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI-10), St. Augustine, Trinidad, February 25-29, 2008, http://gsdi.org/gsdi10/). Deadline: 15 September 2007.
- ArcGIS Explorer - offers free globes and GIS tasks to the public
- Integrated Land and Water Information System (ILWIS) RS/GIS software now available free of cost
- Soil Atlas of Africa in development
- Nature's Benefits in Kenya: An Atlas of Ecosystems and Human Well-Being
- Global landslide risk map
- African Geographical Review - Call for papers
- Postgraduate certificate course - Applications of Earth Observation and GIS in Integrated Water Resources Management. Deadline: 1 October 2007.
- Land Information Management Systems Training Course, 1-12 October 2007, Nairobi, Kenya
- Travel Grants to attend AfricaGIS (and ISPRS activities). Deadline: 20 July 2007.
- Southern African Regional Co-operation Fund for Scientific Research and Technology Development. Deadline: 27 July 2007.
- Budgets of East African governments reveal move to cut donor reliance