At the beginning of January 2019, Ivory Coast officially launched its National Forest and Wildlife Inventory (IFFN), and presented it at a kick-off workshop in early March 2019. This project, for which the Contracting Authority is the Ministry for Water and Forests (MINEF), is intended to take two years and Continue reading
The OSFACO project that aims to improve knowledge of past and present dynamics in terms of land use and land use change in several Central and Western African countries using spatial observation tools, has just published its newsletter n°10. This newsletter includes more specifically the publication of the proceedings of the Continue reading
A workshop entitled “UGRF: The new Ugandan GNSS CORS network” was held in Jinja, in the south east of Uganda, on 24 May, in order to inform the project beneficiaries that the 12 permanent stations set up by the project are now operational, and that the website providing access to Continue reading
African borders will be in the limelight this Friday, 7 June, on African Borders Day. The aim of this day, which will be observed in several countries throughout the continent, is to raise awareness among African Union member states and their populations of the political, economic and human stakes represented Continue reading
As part of the development of national expertise in the field of forest monitoring, the Marien N’GOUABI University of Brazzaville organizes in partnership with IGN FI, the US Forest Service (USFS), and the University of Paris- East-Marne-la-Vallée (UPEM) a training workshop on radar remote sensing from 6 to 10 May Continue reading
An international consortium of public agencies: the British Geological Survey (U.K.); IHCantabria (Spain) and Geological Survey Ireland (Ireland) and companies: ARGANS (U.K.); isardSAT (Spain); adwäisEO (Luxembourg); Arctus (Canada) and IGN FI (France) – led by ARGANS (UK), has won a major project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop Continue reading
The company grouping made up of IGN FI/ PROGRESYS/ INC has been selected to create an exhaustive list of localities throughout Gabon which will be entitled to receive the universal electronic communications service. The government of Gabon wishes to provide access to basic electronic communication services for people in geographically remote Continue reading
In October 2014 IGN FI was awarded a contract to carry out digital mapping of the entire country of Benin at a scale of 1:50,000. Apart from a very few exceptions, the cartography of Benin had never been updated since the country gained its independence. The project to update Benin’s national Continue reading
The French Institute in Benin is organising an exhibition devoted to the Tatas, the remarkable architectural heritage of North Benin, from April 16th to 30th 2019. This exhibition comprising photographs and mapping of the tourism sites is compiled from data gathered and produced as part of the project to modernize Continue reading
IGN FI travelled to Addis Ababa to give a training course to the Ethiopian Geospatial Information Institute (EGII) teams on how remote sensing can contribute to land cover projects. This training course falls within the terms of a framework cooperation agreement concluded between CNES/EGII (formerly EMA, the Ethiopian Mapping Agency) and Continue reading
