Institutional cooperation

A fundamental requirement for a national development strategy is an effective mapping programme. Information about the physical environment in the form of remote sensing imagery, coordinates, maps, digital data, cadastral data and land-use information is a basic tool in the planning, process. The orderly exploitation of natural resources, forestry and agriculture development programmes, erosion control, transportation, urban and rural planning, environmental control, tele- communications, are examples of activities which are, to a high degree, dependent upon the (availability of up-to-date, reliable base data.