The essence of INTERGEO can be summed up in the following statement: “We need to turn data into intelligent information and then transform this into knowledge and actions.” The world’s most important conference trade fair for geodesy, geoinformation and land management draws to a close today after three amazing days in Hanover.

9th Annual Geospatial Intelligence Conference and Exhibition,
21 – 23 January,
QEIiConference Centre, London,
www.geoplace.com;

Recently, the arrests of some unsuspecting citizens
For their alleged ‘offensive comments’ in twitter and facebook,
In the biggest democracy of the world,
Triggered a debate on ‘freedom’ of ‘expression’.

Various nations have passed legislation that makes it possible for ruralcommunities to register their lands as a single legalentity and act as decentralized land administration and management bodies. However, due to various political, financialand capacity constraints, these laws are often not implemented successfully.

November 2012
8th Fig Regional Conference,
26 – 29 November,
Montevideo, Uruguay,
www.fig.net/uruguay;

The 33rd Asian Conference on Remote Sensing,
26 – 30, November,
Pattaya, Thailand,
http://acrs2012.gistda.or.th;

19th United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific
Emphasizes the need of global reference datasets,
Global geospatial information base and framework,
And establishing best practices in institutional arrangements.

Today global navigation systems have become a part of our everyday life. It is part of many useful things and assisted people in many ways. It is part of the marine, aircraft and traffic issues – from private user up to logistic cooperation. Also it is used in agricultural companies for precise farming as well as for information systems in all kind of tasks like geology, archeology, hydrology and a lot more. In the sector of engineering, it supports and guides the construction machines.

As of February 2007, a Tide Gauge (TG) was set up in the Pasaia Harbour, in northern Spain (Figure 1). The main reason for such location was the existence of a Permanent GNSS Station and the access to the Internet and electricity in the AZTifacilities 15 m away.

Imagine a country without any basic administration of land – their key asset. Imagine that tenure to land and property cannot be secured, and that mortgage loans cannot be established as a basis for property improvement. Imagine that the use and development of land is not controlled through overallplanning policies and regulations.

Esri Malaysia User Conference 2012,
23 & 24 0CTOBER 2012,
PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia,
http://www.esrimalaysia.com.my;