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Multidisciplinary areas
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Main Contributors
The spread of contributions to this PAIA from the five Headquarters technical departments (AG, ES, FI, FO and SD) reflects the wide range of use of spatial information and related tools in FAO's substantive work. SD is focal point for GIS development and the PAIA is coordinated by the informal working group on GIS Modelling.
Objective
To facilitate access to harmonised spatial information produced within and outside FAO; e.g. for use in global and regional perspective studies, and for national application by Members.
Priorities
In cooperation with the PAIA on quality of information, the main priorities are to coordinate the: - production of standard maps at various scales, such as basemaps, international and administrative boundary maps, coastlines, rivers and water basins with their international name;
- guidelines for standardisation in the use of country and sub-national codes;
- manual on GIS databases and products;
- generation of spatial agricultural country information and geo-referenced sub-national land use databases through FAO's website;
- enhancement of the corporate spatial data warehouse (GEONETWORK) with a broad range of services and links with outside partners; and
- updated methodology for land-use surveys and land-use definitions, and decision support tools, particularly as relates to land use planning.
[extract from MTP 2004-09]
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