Fugro has secured two geotechnical site investigation contracts with Energinet for Denmark’s proposed Energy Island project. A global first, this purpose-built artificial island will be situated 80 km offshore in the North Sea and act as a hub connecting hundreds of surrounding wind turbines. Fugro will perform the preliminary geotechnical site investigation for the Energy Island and the adjacent …

To successfully operationalize PPPs in land administration, it is critical to examine and assess the commercial feasibility of each proposed transaction inclusion

Tony Burns

Co-Founder of Land Equity International Wollongong, Australia

Fletcher Wright

Managing Director, Planet Partnerships, United States of America

Kate Fairlie

Land administration specialist, Land Equity International Wollongong, Australia

Kate Rickersey

Managing Director, Land Equity International Wollongong, Australia

Abstract
It’s all the buzz, …

Spatial relations are explicitly modelled using spatial weighting matrices which can be applied to the dependent, independent or error terms in regressions

Eduardo Zegarra

Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), Lima, Perú

Abstract
The potential existence of spatial dependencies in land use and irrigation access in mountainous areas like the Peruvian Andes is a relevant issue for designing …

The geospatial information in digital format generated under the projects were inputs to other land administration processes which significantly improved the delivery of services, access and transparency while contributing to a more reliable, efficient and effective land administration and management system

Richard Oput

Land Administration/ Geomatics Consultant, Uganda

Abstract
Uganda got a new Constitution in 1995 which had fundamental …

The paper analyzes the implementation process, provides an overview of the preexisting problems and discusses the means on how the Pilot Project has addressed the shortcomings

Elene Grigolia

Blockchain Consultant LMD Component Manager World Bank Funded Project “ILMD” National Agency of Public Registry, Georgia

Teimuraz Gabriadze

Senior Legal Consultant Irrigation and Land Market Development Project National Agency of Public …

In India, having patta or property title, forms the basis for social and financial opportunity. It often provides the only acceptable proof of address required to access government benefits, enroll children in school…

Property rights and trusted land administration are essential elements to the progress of any nation that is attempting to rise from poverty to wealth…

Esri, the global leader in location intelligence, has announced it is releasing for the first time ever a new high-resolution, 2020 global land cover map as part of the company’s Living Atlas. The map was built using European Space Agency (ESA) Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, and developed using a new machine learning workflow teaming with new …

Fugro has been awarded a contract to survey Scotland’s entire rail network and provide Network Rail with a holistic gauging database that includes clearance data from the track to lineside structures, platforms, objects, and the train-to-train passing interface. The routewide gauging Geo-data will support the continued safe passage of trains operating on the network and facilitate the introduction …

China has successfully landed the Zhurong rover on the surface of Mars, according to news reports. After three months of preparations in orbit, the 240-kilogram Zhurong rover touched down on the dunes of southern Utopia Planitia.

Zhurong is equipped with six science payloads, including a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy instrument for analyzing surface elements and minerals, panoramic …