Terms of Reference:

• Development, access and management of spatio-temporal databases;
• Spatial data infrastructures;
• Image-based geo-spatial databases;
• Data libraries, data clearinghouses, data warehouses, distributed archives and access to remote data sources, including metadata and digital data standards;
• Web based access, retrieval and dissemination of spatial data, including web-based location-based services;
• Integration of spatial information systems and image analysis for database-driven change detection, data capture and updating;
• Dynamic spatial information systems, spatial data revision and versioning;
• Interfacing 3D models with facility management systems;
• Database generation for digital topographic and thematic mapping (including Ortho-images and digital terrain models);
• Digital landscape modelling and visualization, and large scale urban models;
• Global environmental databases and mapping;
• Extraterrestrial mapping and spatial information systems;
• Analysis of systems and their components for automated and semi-automated digital mapping and geo-information systems;
• Analysis of industry needs and design of systems for production and update of Geo-information.