1. Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Council
Wolf Forstreuter
Pacific Islands GIS&RS User Conference 2018

2. Financial Sustainability

3. PGRSC Post Box: 3786 Samabula, Suva Account: 6349s40, HFC Bank
Constitution

4. The Council 3 Trustees 1 Chair 7 Board Members 23 Committee Members
15 Country Focal Points

5. History… GIS&RS User Group
Forestry Department, Fiji, 1993

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. The Board Chair 2 members Lands Department 1 member MRD 3 members SPC
1 member USP
1 member Forestry

9. 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

10. The Committee Meeting every second week Members from:
SPC
USP
Lands
MRD
Forestry
Only Fiji based members so far !

11. 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

12. 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 !

13. Membership
Personal member
Institutional member
Student member

14. Links
ISPRS
STAR
FGIMC
PGRSC
PICISOC
PGSC
CPC

15. Vehicles of Council Pacific Islands GIS&RS User Conference
distribution list GIS-PacNet
Pacific Islands GIS&RS Newsletter
Conference Website

16. Thanks