A collection of USGS before-and-after satellite image pairs for 80 sites around the world is featured in a new atlas documenting global environmental changes released by the United Nations Environment...

ice-president Stig Enemark attended the UN-Habitat workshop in Oslo from 23rd to 24th March 2006 to pre-sent FIG commitment to the UN-Habitat Global Network for Development of Innovative Pro-Poor Land...

In November 2004 an Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure was held at UN Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The focus of this meeting was to discuss new legal frameworks...

In November 2004 an Expert Group Meeting on Secure Land Tenure was held at UN Headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya. The focus of this meeting was to discuss new legal frameworks...

The governance of any geographical area, including marine space, is the management of stakeholder relationships with regard to spatial-temporal resource use for many sanctioned economic, social, political and environmental objectives....

Land and the way governments deal with it are of major importance for the development of any society. The authors present land administration systems as an instrument to support implementation...

Vexcel Corporation (CO, USA) has announced that Dr William B. Gail, formerly director at Ball Aerospace, has joined Vexcel as vice-president of Mapping and Photogrammetric Solutions. He will lead the...

A conference organised by the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy on Promoting Sustainable Land Management in Africa took place in Bagamoyo, Tanzania from March 13th to 17th 2006....

GIM International is introducing a new service for all its readers. This month the first issue of the GIM International e-newsletter will drop into your mailbox. The e-newsletter aims to...

Over the past fifteen years there has been a steady worldwide increase in numbers of associations for Geographic Information (GI), umbrella organisations that aim to play a beneficial role not...