hare knowledge on geoinformation in Africa with as wide an audience as possible. This will include the sourcing and dissemination of research articles on different themes and focus areas, highlighting news items in the geoinformation industry and keeping
CIESIN, the Center for International Earth Science Information Network, is a unit of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, based at the Lamont campus in Palisades, New York. CIESIN works at the intersection of the social, natural, and information sciences, and specializes in on-line data and information management, spatial data integration and training, and interdisciplinary research related to human interactions in the environment. CIESIN’s mission is to provide access to and enhance the use of information worldwide, advancing understanding of human interactions in the environment and serving the needs of science and public and private decision making.
government-funded and approved agencies such as the Ordnance Survey and UK Hydrographic Office and Highways Agency collect data using our funds should make that data available for free
allows you to create professional-looking interactive maps from a wide variety of geographic data in only a few minutes. Maker runs right in your web browser. it’s very easy to find and add different data to your map. You can also add your own data to these maps by uploading it through Finder.
The Global Poverty Mapping Project seeks to enhance current understanding of the global distribution of poverty and the geographic and biophysical conditions of where the poor live.
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