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 ECOLAB 2004 Congress was held in Cayenne, French Guyana, from 30th November to 5th December with the objective of exchanging scientific progress on the management and conservation of Amazonian...

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...

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...

Many surveyors are involved in land consolidation projects at technical and managerial level. The matrix of objectives, procedures and tools which constitute land consolidation is under major change, as is...

Traditional methods of information management are hard to use in the planning process of problematic urban areas such as squatter settlements. GIS provides the capability for dynamic query and analysis,...

Laser-Scan has contributed to the OGC interoperability specification process since 1996, playing a significant role in test-bed programmes and OGC contributions to ISO TC211. Within the context of OGC, Laser-Scan...

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...

Optech Incorporated focuses on the development, manufacture and support of advanced, lidar-based survey solutions. Established in 1974 as a privately held, Canadian-owned research and development firm, Optech was originally an...

Availability of (geospatial) data in Africa always has, and still does represent a bottleneck. Poor communications infrastructure, lack of funds, price of geospatial data and a poor distribution network are...