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The GSDI Association, whose members include organizations, agencies, firms, and individuals worldwide, aims to promote international collaboration in support of local, national and international spatial data infrastructure developments that will allow...
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GeoNetwork, FAO's portal to spatial data and information, offers access to interactive maps, GIS datasets, satellite imagery and related applications that will support decision making in agriculture, forestry, fisheries and food security.
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Large areas of rangeland (veld) in South Africa are not privately owned but are used communally by farmers for grazing domestic livestock and harvesting natural products such as fuelwood. This online bibliography lists literature on the communal...
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ESRI is a leading developer of geographic information system (GIS) technology and offers a wide variety of resources for practitioners engaged in land-related issues, including free GIS software, demos, geographic data, user scripts and several newsletters and publications for GIS users.
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Digital Grove is a non-commercial, educational website that offers simple, practical information about digital cartography, GPS and GIS tools and equipment for resource managers. Started in 2002 by Paul Pingrey, a member of the Society of American...
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Spatial Data Infrastructure - Africa (SDI-Africa) is a free electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Africa. It aims to raise awareness and provide useful information to strengthen national SDI...
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SDI-LAC is a regional, monthly, and free, electronic newsletter from the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure Association (GSDI). It focuses on aspects related with Spatial Data Infrastructure, and on GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues, related with SDI in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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SDI-AP is a free electronic newsletter for people interested in GIS, remote sensing, and data management issues in Asia and the Pacific. It aims to raise awareness and provide useful information to strengthen national SDI initiatives and support synchronization of regional efforts.
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The GLCF provides earth science data and products on global environmental systems. In particular, the GLCF develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products that explain land cover from the local to global scales.
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LandAdmin.co.uk is a website maintained by Sean G. Johnson, a UK based independent land administration consultant specialising in geomatics. Although hosted in the UK, this site is intended to serve as a source of information on land administration in the developing world.
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FSIG is a web-based portal, developed by the Center For International Forestry Research (CIFOR), for one-stop access to spatial publications, maps and other documents that will simplify the ability of all levels of visitors to find forestry related...
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The RCMRD, previously known as the Regional Centre for Services in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (RCSSMRS), was established in Nairobi, Kenya in 1975 under the auspices of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the then Organization of African Unity (OAU).
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The ILC is a global alliance of intergovernmental, governmental and civil-society organizations that works with the rural poor to increase their secure access to natural resources, especially land, and enable them to participate directly in policy and...
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Based in Nairobi, Kenya, Geomaps is a consultancy that provides professional and comprehensive geographical information services. Geomaps is one of the largest such consultancies in East and Central Africa, with offices in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Senegal and Rwanda.
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A Nigerian environmental management and remote sensing - GIS company with offices in Lagos and Ibadan. It produces 1:250,000 land use and vegetation maps, state environmental action plans, and forest management plans.
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Geo e-Links is a "map portal to sustainable rural development experiences- maintained by Development Ecology Information Service, Alexandria, Virginia. Find case studies through a digital map of Africa by category, country, environmental context, and other parameters.
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LandScan is a worldwide population database compiled on a 30" x 30" latitude/longitude grid. Census counts (at sub-national level) were apportioned to each grid cell based on likelihood coefficients, which are based on proximity to roads,...
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Cadastre 2014 is the result of the International Federation of Surveyor (FIG) -Commission 7 working group 1 "Vision Cadastre". This landmark report looks at trends and developing visions for cadastral systems to be in 20 years' time.
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Cadastral Template is a worldwide comparison of cadastral systems, based on a template jointly developed by the International Federation of Surveyor (FIG) and the PCGIAP Permanent Committee on GIS Infrastructure for Asia & the Pacific (PCGIAP).
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Current Mozambican land law regulations allow two stages of cadastral land recording called delimitation and demarcation, both involving community mapping and participatory GIS as tools. A number of organizations are working in Mozambique on the...
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This paper aims at identifying unconventional approaches from the point of view of land registrars and land surveyors, which might contribute to the development of appropriate land administration systems in countries that desire to use a land register...
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This paper presents the challenges and issues facing countries in the ex-socialist countries, Latin America, and the Caribbean as they attempt to formalize land rights and facilitate a land market. By focusing on issues and problems, we hope to influence...
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This site contains lots of info and educational materials about GIS. The site is intended to educate anyone interested in geographic technology on the value that technology brings to their day-to-day activities. The site also provides GIS users with resources to help them in their work.
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This UNEP site offers free access to GIS datasets consisting of georeferenced (geo)graphical features linked to an attribute database, including base maps and thematic maps (biodiversity, population, protected areas, etc.).
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by Jefferson Fox, Krisnawati Suryanata, and Peter Hershock (eds.) (2005) Free Download: PDF Price: free This book emerged out of concerns that spatial information technologies (SITs) can lead to consequences that raise important ethical questions.
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PPgis.net serves as a global forum for discussing issues, experiences and good practices related to community mapping, participatory mapping, counter mapping, public participatory GIS (PPGIS), community integrated (CiGIS), mobile interactive (MiGIS)...
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Global Mapper is a viewer capable of displaying the most popular raster, elevation and vector datasets. It also converts, edits, prints, tracks GPS, and allows users to utilize GIS functionality on datasets in one software package.
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TalkingTitler is an initiative to provide appropriate systems and technological support for land occupation and ownership rights for people in developing countries and post-conflict situations. It is also aimed at societies where land tenure practices...
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