News in 2014
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2014 Annual Meeting of the Joint Board of Geospatial
Information Societies (JBGIS)
4 August 2014, UN Statistics Division, 2 UN Plaza, New York
The 2014 Annual Meeting of JBGIS was attended by nine of the ten
participating international organization, namely IAG (Chris Rizos), ICA
(Georg Gartner and William Cartwright), IEEE-GRSS (Ms. Melba Crawford), IHO
(Robert Ward), IMIA (Mark Cygan), ISCGM (Toru Nagayama), ISPRS (Orhan
Altan), GSDI (David Coleman), and FIG (CheeHai Teo). William Cartwright of
the International Cartographic Association chaired the meeting. Towards the
closing stages of the meeting, Prof. Chris Rizos of the International
Association of Geodesy was unanimously confirmed as the Chair of JB-GIS and
the Joint Board thanked Prof. William Cartwright for his chairing of the
Joint Board over the past three years.
The meeting agreed to support ICA’s initiative for an “International Map
Year” that will be launched at ICA’s 2015 Congress. The initiative will seek
to showcase and raise awareness of the contributions and importance of
geospatial information, of cartography and of maps. The fourth Session of
UNGGIM endorsed ICA’s proposed initiative for the “International Map Year”
for 2015/2016. The meeting discussed and noted the JB-GIS Ad Hoc Committee
on Disaster and Risk Management will be convening 2015 GI4DM Conference in
Montpellier, France in September 2015. The meeting also considered and noted
another follow-up publication proposed by ISPRS provisionally titled as
“Application of Geo-information to Enhance Disaster and Risk Management:
Case Analyses of Functions and Processes” with an acronym AGENDA.
The timing and venue of the 2015 JBGIS Annual Meeting will be confirmed
at a later date and is likely to be at the sideline of the Fifth Session of
UN-GGIM.
Further meetings at UN Headquarter in New York, August 2014:
CheeHai Teo
August 2014
New York
19 August 2014
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