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Welcome to the Joint Board of GIS

The Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS) is a coalition of leading international geospatial societies which can speak on behalf of the geospatial profession at international level, especially to the United Nations and other global stakeholders. Its second goal is to coordinate activities within the geospatial society and organisations.

The JB GIS is a co-operation network and there are no obligations to the membership neither does the JB GIS collect any membership fees. The current members of the JB GIS are IAG, ICA, FIG, IHO, IMTA, ISCGM and ISPRS.

The JB GIS meets normally once a year in normal case linked to one of the conferences or other meetings of one or two of the member associations.

The JB GIS can appoint ad hoc committees for certain projects and important topics. Normally these committees shall have clear goals and are normally appointed for a limited time period.


JB-GIS Best Practices Booklet on Geo-information for Risk and Disaster Management - Call for abstracts

The Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB-GIS, http://www.fig.net/jbgis/) and UN-SPIDER jointly invite you to contribute to a “Best Practices Booklet on Geo-information for Risk and Disaster Management” that will create a decision support forum based on the knowledge and experience of experts, and outline the potential uses of the Geo-Information Technologies to governmental, institutional and operative decision makers. The Booklet is intended to cover all regions of the world and all phases of the disaster management cycle. The abstracts should not exceed 400 words and should outline a successful application, including data acquisition, information extraction and dissemination, and a clear statement of the benefits and further potential of the practice described as compared to classical methods. The deadline for submitting the abstracts is 30 April 2009 and the deadline for submission of the selected full papers is 30 September 2009. Publication and worldwide announcement of the “Best Practices Booklet” is planned for 2 July 2010 in Vienna at UN-SPIDER. Please submit the abstracts to Prof. Piero Boccardo (piero.boccardo (at) polito.it). Read more...


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Contact Address
Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS)
c/o International Federation of Surveyors
Kalvebod Brygge 31-33
DK-1780 Copenhagen V
DENMARK
e-mail: markku.villikka@fig.net
Tel + 358 44 357 0911 (direct)
Tel + 45 3886 1081
Fax + 45 3886 0252
Web site: www.fig.net/jbgis


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