The Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS) has underscored the need for the passage of the pieces of legislation for Survey Council and Real Estate. Such legislation will give legal backing to operations in the land management industry and stem the incidence of multiple sale of land

Over the last decade we have witnessed a number of significant developments which have affected and changed the global geospatial industry. The two biggest drivers to this change have been advances in technologies and the global recognition of the power of mapping information…

Coordinates 100th Issue is indeed a milestone. Just like in cricket or baseball scoring a century or a home run does not come in every innings except for the very gifted and talented. However, in the case of Coordinates it is very welcome and heartening to note that the journal is endurable, enduring and is producing a kind of a continuing dialogue that many subscribe to.

Cities in developing countries are expanding rapidly and consuming every possible space available. The growth is not only in their physical expansion but also the increased urban population. The space consumption is again not only…

There have been many technological advances in cadastre, particularly with the workflows of how parcel data is managed and published. It’s obvious that data collection via satellite imagery, total station, and GPS have all advanced, but lesser seen is the management of this data, particularly maintaining all aspects of parcel data…

Vol. IX, Issue 6, June 2013

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Tracking the prey rather than the predator with GNSS

Dr Volker Janssen

Integrating surveying methodologies to provide specific solutions

Donatella Dominici, Elisa Rosciano, Michail Elaiopoulos

Improving land administration systems in developing countries

Jouni Johannes Anttonen

Geodynamical study of the territory of Balkan peninsula from GPS solutions

Keranka Vassileva

A hybrid GIS space syntax …

“Geospatial Cooperation Towards a Sustainable Future”

The Philippines will host the 12th South East Asian Survey Congress on 18-20 June 2013 at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC) in Manila. The National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) will spearhead the event with the Philippine Geodetic Engineering and Geomatics Society (PHILGEGS) in collaboration with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations …

A detailed assessment of the country’s mineral resources is required before mines are put up for bidding with the aim of revenue maximisation, said the Economic Survey. “In order to meet the objective of revenue maximisation in an open, transparent and competitive manner, this should be preceded by detailed geological mapping of the mineral wealth of the country,” said the Economic Survey 2012-13, tabled in Parliament. http:// articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/

IRNSS – Want More From Less?
Vyasaraj Guru Rao, Gérard Lachapelle
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The logical consequence of economic development–land consumption–substantiates the need for sustainable land management and cadastre