On Thursday 27 March 2025, a seminar dedicated to the contribution of geographic information in public decision-making was held at the King’s Conference Center in Bujumbura. This event was organised with the support of the Geomatics Centralisation Office (BCG), under the supervision of the Burundian Prime Minister’s Office, IGN FI Continue reading
The project to modernise and rehabilitate Senegal’s geodetic infrastructure is part of the Land Registry and Security Project (PROCASEF), which aims to put in place land management tools throughout the country. The land reform currently underway in Senegal is a key commitment on the part of the government, and must Continue reading
The Ministry of Lands, Housing & Urban Development (MLHUD), with the support of IGN FI has launched on Wednesday 2nd October the UgNLIS public web portal and the mobile applications for smartphone working on iOS and Android. It is an important milestone in improving access to land-related information, transparency and Continue reading
The Joint Saudi Jordanian Technical Committee has awarded the IGN FI – Almabani Consortium a contract for renewing the land boundary line marks between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The purpose of the project is to renew and improve the visibility and identification on Continue reading
The IGARSS 2024 (International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium) was held in Athens from 6 to 12 July. This event, organised by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, is one of the world’s largest conferences in the field of remote sensing. Two of our experts have been selected to give Continue reading
The Minister for Water and Sanitation, Cheikh Tidiane Dièye, presented the results of the scientific study on the mapping of flood-prone areas in Senegal in Kaolack on Tuesday 11 June. This mapping is an awareness-raising tool designed to improve knowledge of the risk of flooding and reduce the vulnerability of Continue reading
The consortium formed by Bruno Remoué & Associats – allNext – IGN FI consortium has been selected to carry out a study on the profiling of precarious neighbourhoods in the Autonomous District of Abidjan as part of the Urban Sanitation and Resilience Project (PARU), financed by the World Bank on Continue reading
Today, on International Women’s Rights Day, we are proud to see that more and more women are getting involved and achieving success in traditionally male-dominated fields, particularly in the field of geographic information, which is becoming increasingly feminised. At IGN FI’s head office, for example, we have achieved parity between Continue reading
The presentation of the results of the Integrated Flood Management Project (PGIIS) in the Kolda area brought together all the stakeholders at the end of January. The mapping of the flood risk in the area models a statistical risk. It is an awareness-raising tool for integrating flood risk into all Continue reading
In November 2023, the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission and VITO signed a four-year framework contract for the deployment of the Copernicus LCFM service, marking a significant step forward in environmental monitoring. This service extends and enhances the Copernicus Global Land Cover 100m resolution layers and incorporates Continue reading
