Introduction
As the human knowledge about the significance of environmental dynamics is increasing there has been an increasing consensus that the main challenges of the modern era include protecting the human health and well-being, as well as conserving the environments and the natural resources we depend upon, increasing food security, improving transportation services, land use planning and development, and providing increased services to the citizens at their doorsteps requires effective decision making at appropriate levels after the respective areas of concern are identified. Devising policies to effectively implement and target the intervention, monitor outcomes, and assessment of impacts. For making it all possible geographic information and the use of GIS is vital. Such information should …show more content…
Every partner or associate has to contribute towards the undertaking with funds as well as personnel, and they will all have access to the resulting databases as well. However, a series of agreements based on usage and marketing rights govern the external access to these databases (Craglia et al., 2003). Here are some important NSDI stakeholders in the following table.
Some important stakeholders related to SDI activities in Norway
The Ministry of the Environment: Policy framework, legal issues, instructions, budget
Norwegian Mapping Authority (NMA) Executing agency, standardization, management, and co-ordination of NSDI, Norwegian fellow of EuroGeographics
Geovekst It is a nation-wide program for establishing digital geographic data.
GeoForum Norwegian umbrella organization for GI. It is the Norwegian member of EUROGI
AREALIS This program create environmental data and land use information.
GBL Association of Enterprises in Geomatics
PRIMAR It provides reliable and consistent electronic navigational chart service.
Table 1. Stakeholders related to SDI activities in
As the human knowledge about the significance of environmental dynamics is increasing there has been an increasing consensus that the main challenges of the modern era include protecting the human health and well-being, as well as conserving the environments and the natural resources we depend upon, increasing food security, improving transportation services, land use planning and development, and providing increased services to the citizens at their doorsteps requires effective decision making at appropriate levels after the respective areas of concern are identified. Devising policies to effectively implement and target the intervention, monitor outcomes, and assessment of impacts. For making it all possible geographic information and the use of GIS is vital. Such information should …show more content…
Every partner or associate has to contribute towards the undertaking with funds as well as personnel, and they will all have access to the resulting databases as well. However, a series of agreements based on usage and marketing rights govern the external access to these databases (Craglia et al., 2003). Here are some important NSDI stakeholders in the following table.
Some important stakeholders related to SDI activities in Norway
The Ministry of the Environment: Policy framework, legal issues, instructions, budget
Norwegian Mapping Authority (NMA) Executing agency, standardization, management, and co-ordination of NSDI, Norwegian fellow of EuroGeographics
Geovekst It is a nation-wide program for establishing digital geographic data.
GeoForum Norwegian umbrella organization for GI. It is the Norwegian member of EUROGI
AREALIS This program create environmental data and land use information.
GBL Association of Enterprises in Geomatics
PRIMAR It provides reliable and consistent electronic navigational chart service.
Table 1. Stakeholders related to SDI activities in