Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council Wolf Forstreuter Pacific Islands GIS&RS User Conference 2018
Financial Sustainability
PGRSC Post Box: 3786 Samabula, Suva Account: 6349s40, HFC Bank Constitution
The Council 3 Trustees 1 Chair 7 Board Members 23 Committee Members 15 Country Focal Points
History… GIS&RS User Group Forestry Department, Fiji, 1993
Objectives To promote the development of GIS and Remote Sensing (RS) data, technologies, methods and services for the pacific region; To enable collaboration and share lessons learnt across regional agencies and commercial parties; To discuss and establish methods in building adaptation for the Pacific environment for solutions working already well outside the region; To manage the distribution, publication and awareness of conference outcomes; To establish robust links with other GIS, RS and scientific bodies regionally and globally.
Objectives To promote the Pacific development of GIS&RS; To enable collaboration and share lessons learnt; To discuss and establish methods in building adaptation; To manage the distribution, publication and awareness of conference outcomes; To establish robust links.
The Board Chair 2 members Lands Department 1 member MRD 3 members SPC 1 member USP 1 member Forestry
The Trustees Rajendra Singh Malakai Finau Dr Russell Howorth PS Lands & Mineral Resources Chair STAR Meeting Chair FGIMC Former Director SOPAC Trustee STAR Meeting Director CPC Education Author & publisher Order of Fiji Award
The Committee Meeting every second week Members from: SPC USP Lands MRD Forestry Only Fiji based members so far !
The Country Focal Points Link to Chair and Board Receiving first level information Link to country GIS&RS User Group Providing country view to Board Helping to country users to present and publish articles in Newsletter
Members of PGRSC ? Everybody who is in contact with PGRSC or visits the Conference ? Documented membership is in progress ! Communication Board and members to be developed !
Membership Personal member Institutional member Student member
Links ISPRS STAR FGIMC PGRSC PICISOC PGSC CPC
Vehicles of Council Pacific Islands GIS&RS User Conference E-Mail distribution list GIS-PacNet Pacific Islands GIS&RS Newsletter Conference Website gis-pacnet@picisoc.org
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