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ITC News September 2001 1

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contentJIK joint educationalprogramme in IranArno van Lieshout, Sjaak Beerens 2Financing of projects inenergy, environment andclimate changeMike McCall 4Training in environmentalimpact assessmentTom Loran 5Rector and director ExternalAffairs Visit Indonesia andThailandSjaak Beerens 7ITC participates in ESRI userconferenceJyosyula Sastry 9Introducing ILWIS 3.0AcademicLyande Eelderink, Petra Budde 10Chairman ISRO visits ITCMukund Rao, Sjaak Beerens 12Municipal Cadastre inTrujillo, PeruJan Turkstra 14Land “Rites”: land tenure forthe urban poorJan Turkstra, Ayako Kagawa 15Obituary Honorary Fellow Ir.Pranoto AsmoroSjaak Beerens 18ITC participates in AFRICAGISMireille Meester 19GISDECO seminar at ITCKaren Buchanan 20GSDI conferenceIan Masser 21Award for ITC ProfessorJanneke Kalf 22Inaugural Address Paul vander MolenKadaster Abroad 24SwedeSurvey visits ITCJanneke Kalf 25Appointment new headBureau Project ServicesJanneke Kalf 25Opinion 26Alumni Associations 27Calendar 28

2001number 2

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On 21 July 2001,

in Tehran, Iran, the JIK

joint international

MSc/PM programme in

Remote Sensing and

Geographical Informa-

tion Systems kicked off

with a grand opening

ceremony.

M A I N F E A T U R E S

This educational programme is a col-laborative effort of the Iranian Ministryof Jahad and Agriculture, the KhajehNasir Toosi University of Technology(KNTUT) and ITC. It is organised at theKNTUT Faculty of Civil Engineering,which is located in the centre ofTehran.

The opening ceremony was attendedby some 150 people, including courseparticipants and representatives fromvarious organisations, and was wellcovered by the national media. Deputyministers from the Ministry of Cultureand Higher Education (Dr. Jafar Tow-fighi) and the Ministry of Jahad and

Agriculture (Dr. Gharayazi, who is alsopresident of the Natural Resource andAgriculture Research, Education andExtension Organization) took part inthe presentations. Moreover, the cere-mony served as an occasion of reunionfor many alumni who had followedprevious courses conducted jointly byITC and its Iranian counterparts.

A total of 48 course participants hadregistered for the course, includingpeople from Pakistan, Sudan andGhana (four in total). Course partici-pants can choose from three specialisa-tions:• Watershed and Environmental Man-

agement• Rangeland and Agricultural Manage-

ment• Geo-informatics.Two degree courses are offered: a 12-month Professional Master’s degreecourse conducted entirely in Iran, andan 18-month Master of Science degreecourse, the last five months of whichare spent at ITC in Enschede, theNetherlands.

In all three specialisations, the focus ison the application of remote sensingand GIS to specific research questionsencountered by the participants.Fieldwork is an important componentof both the MSc and the PM course.The programme has a modular struc-ture similar to that of courses at ITC.The teaching staff consists of ITC PhDand MSc alumni and senior staff mem-

ITC News September 2001

JIK Joint EducationalProgramme in Iran:

Successful Kick-OffArno van Lieshout [email protected]

Sjaak Beerens [email protected]

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bers of the KNTUT and the SoilConservation and Watershed Man-agement Research Centre. Iranian staffmembers have visited ITC to familiarisethemselves with ITC teaching methodsand prepare, jointly with ITC staffmembers, dedicated case studies andexercises.

In view of the successful start (in factonly 30 participants had been expectedfor the first courses), the partners havediscussed extending the programme toinclude other specialisations, starting in2002. An intensive marketing cam-paign for the programme starting inJuly 2002 is envisaged, directed at theMiddle East, Central Asia and NorthernAfrica.

For more information, please contactthe Programme Office in Tehran

Dr. Ali A. AbkarJIK RS & GIS OfficeCivil Engineering FacultyKN Toosi Univ. of TechnologyP.O. Box: 15875-4416Tehran, Iran

Tel/Fax: +98 (0)21 [email protected] contact Ir. A.M. van Lieshout([email protected]) at ITC

Dr. B. Aminipouri, JIK programme directorwelcomes the quests at the opening ceremony

S.A. Mirtaheri, president of KNTUT at theopening ceremony

S.A. Mirtaheri, president of KNTUT and SjaakJ.J. Beerens, director external affairs atfarewell function

Guests at the JIKopening ceremony at

KNTUT campusground

The joint courses generically known asICREPE or “International Courses inRural Energy Planning & theEnvironment” represent a long-run-ning, successful co-operation betweenUT and ITC which should get evenstronger in the near future. This wasthe 19th ICREPE course since theybegan in 1983.

In the ICREPE-2001 course, staff fromITC, TDG and other UT departmentswere involved in the training, in addi-tion to visitors from relevant govern-ment agencies and the commercial sec-tor. The course included field trips andsite visits to renewable energy produc-ers, utilities, and sustainable environ-ment consumers throughout easternNetherlands.

The objectives and target groups of theICREPE courses have always been simi-lar to those of ITC’s main courses, thatis, training southern professionals inapplied development issues. The RuralEnergy components of ICREPE varyfrom year to year, with a focus some-times on renewable energy policy, or

energy project planning, or environ-mental impacts of energy projects &programmes, or on biomass and forestenergy technologies.

The ICREPE-2001 topic of “projects inenergy, environment and climatechange” is directly relevant to one ofITC’s new research spearheads - “Geo-information Science & Earth Observa-tion for Global Change’, where thechallenges are in selecting indicators,measuring, analysing, monitoring, andapplying spatial measures of global en-vironmental changes, including the im-pacts of GHG (greenhouse gas) emis-sions on global climate and the conse-quences for ecosystems and human so-ciety.

ICREPE-2001 focused on the financingconditions for project proposals tack-ling energy, environment and climatechange. Therefore it was a practicaltraining workshop on how to designand prepare fundable projects seekingpublic- or private-sector financial sup-port. The participants worked on spe-cific proposals relevant to their own

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REPORT on:

FINANCING OF PROJECTS IN ENERGY,ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGETraining workshop for the public and private sector

Mike McCall [email protected]

ITC and the Technology

& Development Group

(TDG) of the University

of Twente (UT) jointly

held an international

course from 1st May to

2nd June 2001 entitled

“Financing of Projects in

Energy, Environment

and Climate Change -

Training Workshop for

the Public and Private

Sector “.

Technology and Development Group

Organised by:

working conditions and institutions -proposals that can be submitted to UNagencies, World Bank, NetherlandsGovernment Ministries, Shell Founda-tion, etc. for actual financing. Thus,proposal documents were written ac-cording to the actual Terms of Refer-ence and guideline specifications ofparticular funding agencies and pro-grammes, and they included the pre-dicted environmental impacts, eco-nomic & financial analysis, institutionalfeasibility, etc. as well as the techno-logical factors.

There were nine participants fromNepal, Ethiopia, India, Peru, Philippinesand the Netherlands. New this yearwere informal awards to the projectproposal considered “most likely tosucceed with a funding agency”, tothe best formulated document, and tothe “most innovative project” - a pro-posal to renovate a disused freight-car-rying ropeway from the Indian railhead to Kathmandu, which, if built,would eliminate the need for thou-sands of GHG-emitting lorry trips.

For information about ICREPE-’02 inMay 2002, contact the Joint CourseAdministrator, Ir. Joop Neinders, atemail: [email protected]



The nine participants from Nepal, Ethiopia, India, Peru, Philippines and theNetherlands, and staff

Training in EnvironmentalImpact Assessment

Tom Loran [email protected]

In order to enhance spatial decisionmaking in environmental impact as-sessment (EIA) using GIS and remotesensing techniques, a special trainingprogramme was organised at theUniversity College for Lands andArchitectural Studies (UCLAS) in Dar esSalaam, Tanzania. Joan Looijen, a lec-turer with ITC’s ACE division, took partin presenting the course, together withstaff from the University of Dar esSalaam, the Institute of Resource

Assessment (IRA) and the NationalEnvironmental Management Council ofTanzania. The EIA course, which lastedthree weeks, covered all the steps andprocedures in the assessment process,and focused on the use of GIS andmulticriterion evaluation in the differ-ent phases of the EIA process.

Ms. Anna Maembe, who graduatedfrom ITC two years ago and is nowworking for Tanzania’s National

Presentation of case study results

Environmental Management Council,not only contributed to the teachingeffort, but also organised two very in-teresting field visits to an EIA projectsite in Bagamoyo. The visits were madeto an area where a commercial com-pany is planning to establish ponds andrelated facilities for semi-intensiveshrimp farming. As this area is locatedwithin a mangrove area, the objectiveof the field visits was to select a site forprawn farming that would have mini-mum effect on the environment.

The course was organised as part ofthe regular training programme of theEISCAP project, a programme in whichUCLAS and ITC co-operate in present-ing short application courses on theuse of GIS and remote sensing tech-niques. This was already the secondEIA course to be given, and a third is

being organised, together with UCLASand the Institute for Environment andNatural Resources, at MakarereUniversity, Uganda.



Presentation of mangrove zonation inBagamoyo study area

Field observations in Bagamoyo area

Graduation ceremony

Anna Maembe, ITC graduate, teaching in thecourse

Field visit of abandoned shrimp ponds

INDONESIAOver the past 50 years, more than1,000 professionals from Indonesiahave graduated from ITC (out of a totalof 14,500). These same 50 years haveseen institutional collaboration withmany academic and professional or-ganisations in the country. These activi-ties have resulted in a special relation-ship between Indonesia and ITC.

With this special relationship in mind,Rector Prof. Martien Molenaar andDirector External Affairs Sjaak Beerensvisited a number of ITC alumni and or-ganisations in Indonesia to discuss theoutline of the new strategy (as laiddown in the new rector’s inaugural ad-dress in December 2000) and, in partic-ular, the decentralisation of education– a dominant feature of this new strat-egy.

Meetings were held with staff from:• Faculty of Geography, Gadjah Mada

University (UGM), Yogyakarta, whichaccommodates the remote sensing

laboratory (PUSPICS) established inco-operation with ITC

• Department of Geodetic Engineer-ing, Bandung Institute of Technol-ogy (ITB), Bandung, where the for-mer sister institute, the Centre forEducation in Photogrammetry andCartography (PPFK), has been incor-porated as a laboratory for pho-togrammetry, cartography and re-mote sensing

• South-East Asian Regional Centrefor Tropical Biology (SEAMEO-BIOTROP), Bogor, which operatesunder the academic umbrella of theBogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB)

• National Institute of Aeronautics andSpace (LAPAN), Jakarta.

These discussions revealed both asound basis and some interesting op-portunities for establishing decen-tralised joint education programmes.Interest among the universities origi-nates from the autonomy assigned tothe main universities in Indonesia, in-cluding UGM, ITB and IPB, which alsoimplies the funding of operations fromcourse fees for postgraduate educa-tion. Collaboration with ITC will makepostgraduate studies more appealing.

Besides meeting with potential part-ners for decentralisation, a meetingand dinner was arranged with the twoIndonesian Honorary Fellows of ITC,Prof. Ir. Soekiman Atmosoedaryo (Min-istry of Forestry and Fellow since 1976)and Prof. Dr. Ir. Jacub Rais (formerchairman of BAKOSURTANAL, the Na-tional Coordination Agency for Surveysand Mapping, and Honorary Fellow


Prof. Martien Molenaar

and Director External Af-

fairs Sjaak Beerens

visited Indonesia and

Thailand from 15 to 25

May 2001. The dual pur-

pose of the visit was to

discuss ITC’s policy with

respect to the decentral-

ization of education and

to participate in the 3rd

ISPRS Workshop on Dy-

namic and Multidimen-

sional GIS in Bangkok,

Thailand.


ITC Rector andDirector External Affairs

visit Indonesia and ThailandSjaak Beerens [email protected]

Meeting with Indonesian Honorary Fellows Prof. Dr. J. Rais (first from left), Prof. Ir.Soekiman Atmosoedaryo (third from left) and Prof.Ir. Rubini Atmawidjaja MSc (secondfrom right)

since 1988). Respects were paid to thefamily of the late Ir. Pranoto Asmoro(also former chairman of BAKOSUR-TANAL and Honorary Fellow since1976), who passed away in April thisyear (see Obituary, page 18).

Finally, a meeting was arranged with(part of) the Board of the NetherlandsAlumni Association Indonesia (IKANED)to discuss the setting up of a separatechapter for ITC alumni within IKANED.This will allow a more direct link withITC alumni in Indonesia. Part of thenew policy of ITC is to have more in-tensive relations with alumni for thepurposes of aftercare, involvement inongoing activities and general commu-nication/information.

THAILANDProf. Molenaar delivered a keynote ad-dress at the 3rd ISPRS Workshop onDynamic and Multidimensional GIS(combined with the 10th Annual Con-ference of CPGIS on Geoinformatics).This event was also attended by Prof.Dr. Shunji Murai, former president ofthe Asian Institute of Technology (AIT)and ITC Honorary Fellow since 1993.At the end of the workshop, it was an-nounced that the 4th ISPRS Workshopon Dynamic and Multidimensional GISwill be organised at ITC in June/July2003.

Within the framework of ITC’s policy todecentralise part of its education byentering into partnership with other or-ganisations, a meeting was held with

Dr. Jean-Louis Armand, president ofthe Asian Institute of Technology. Theidea of a joint postgraduate educa-tional programme – possibly enhancedby short courses on specific topics –was supported by both AIT and ITC. Itwas decided to elaborate this collabo-ration, which would cover the GreaterMekong and South Asian regions.



with staff of the Faculty of Geography ofGadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta....

Prof. Molenaar and Prof.Dr. Sudarmadji, deanof Faculty of Geography, UGM, Yogyakarta.....

and at the Department of GeodeticEngineering of the Bandung Institute ofTechnology with Dr.Ir. Irawan Soemarto

with Prof Lilik Hendrajaya, rector of theBandung Institute of Technology....

Prof. Molenaar flanked by ITCHonorary Fellow Prof Dr. J. Rais (left)and staff of SEAMEO-BIOTROP,Bogor

During his opening address, Mr. JackDangermond shared with his audiencethe ESRI vision of the future of GIS(www.esri.com/uc).

There were two entries from ITC at theconference. First, Mr. Victor Cuadrado([email protected]) submitted a map en-titled Nuevo Mapa de Puerto Rico. Thismap, which illustrates and exploresArcView 3.2 capabilities for cartogra-phy and visualisation, was well re-ceived. An Internet mapping entry enti-

tled NetCities, which was preparedusing ArcIMs and aimed at disseminat-ing knowledge via online examples ofhow geoinformation can be used tostrengthen civic societies, was submit-ted by the author. It was prepared by ateam of PM students: Sastry (GIM),Setiawan (GFM), Simon Putra (UPLA)and Chogyel (GIM). More on NetCitiescan be found at http://kartoweb.itc.nl/netcities or at the ESRI website http://www.esri.com/events/uc/results/imm_entries.html. Students at ITC are ex-posed to the latest technologies andconcepts, and often work in interdisci-plinary groups. NetCities is a typical ex-ample of work produced in this envi-ronment.

For copies of conference and exhibitmaterial, please contact the author.



Nuevo Mapa de Puerto Rico

NetCities internet mapping entry (http://kartoweb.itc.nl/netcities)

ITC Participates in ESRI User Conference in San DiegoJyosyula Sastry [email protected]

Prof. Wolfgang Kainz

and Mr. Jyosyula Sastry

represented ITC at the

ESRI Annual User Confer-

ence held in San Diego

from 9 to 13 July 2001.



Release of ILWIS 3.0Jelger Kooistra gave an interestingdemonstration to the audience, illus-trating the highlights of the new soft-ware.

Ordering: Information and PolicyITC and PCI Geomatics collaborate onthe development and commercial dis-tribution of the ILWIS software. Underthis agreement, ITC pursues academicaims in keeping with its mission, in-cluding the distribution of the Acade-mic version of ILWIS, whereas PCIGeomatics is responsible for sales inthe commercial sector.

ITC staff members, students, alumniand collaborating institutes/individualscan obtain the ILWIS 3.0 Academicversion from the ITC Bookshop inEnschede. This distribution is restrictedto “cash counter sales” only and ITC willnot be arranging shipment. Alumni andcollaborating institutes/individuals whoare unable to visit the ITC Bookshop areinvited to download the software from:http://www.itc.nl/ilwis/ordering/frames-ordering.html. All other orders can beplaced with PCI Geomatics, who alsoarranges shipment.

New FeaturesSome of the main improvements ofILWIS 3.0 are:• 32-bit application, thus fully com-

patible with Windows 95, 98, ME,NT4 and 2000

• Completely modernised user-inter-face

• Use of long file names• Easier data management• Better output• Tabbed Property sheets offering a

quick insight into dependencies• In-built PCI GeoGateway module to

import and export a wealth of fileformats

• Help in the new HTML Help format.

ILWIS 3.0 comes complete with a fullyupdated user’s guide. The ILWIS 3.0User’s Guide is intended to teach thebasic GIS and image processing tech-niques. The guide includes not only nu-merous explanations, exercises andprocedures for first-time users, but alsotopics for more experienced users. Itcan be used in a course environment orfor self-tuition purposes.

Below you will find some figures andexplanations of the new features inILWIS 3.0 Main window, Map windowand Layout window.

ILWIS 3.0 Main WindowIn the Main window, data manage-ment has been improved. First of all,multiple Catalogs can be opened.Secondly, you can select multiple ob-jects in a Catalog and open them(using the context-sensitive menu) orcopy them to another Catalog (e.g. byusing drag and drop). Furthermore,within a Catalog, you now have thepossibility to sort objects alphabeticallyaccording to size, the time last modi-fied, etc., and you can get extra infor-mation on objects by using DetailsView. With the object selectiontoolbar, you can easily select the ob-jects that should be visible in a Catalog.

The purpose of the Operation-tree is toshorten the list of operations. It showsoperations in groups, similar to theOperations menu. By using the

After more than two

years’ hard work,

14 June 2001 saw the re-

lease of ILWIS 3.0 Acade-

mic at ITC in Enschede.

Wim Koolhoven, ILWIS

project leader, officially

handed over the com-

pletely modernised ver-

sion of the ILWIS product

to Sjaak Beerens, ITC’s

director of external af-

fairs.

Wim Koolhoven handed over thecompletely modernised version ofthe ILWIS product to Sjaak Beerens

Introducing

ILWIS 3.0 Academic!Lyande Eelderink [email protected]

Petra Budde [email protected]

Navigator tab, you can open other di-rectories as a Catalog, and return toprevious directories by using the his-tory. The command line gives easier ac-cess to previously used expressions be-cause the history is available in a listbox.

ILWIS 3.0 Map WindowIn a Map window, you will find thedockable Layer Management pane,which lists as a tree view all the layersthat have been added to the Map win-dow. From Layer Management, youcan easily see map legends, open theproperties of a layer, change the orderof layers, etc. Also, a window showingthe attributes of a selected map unit

and a small histogram window can bedocked into the Map window. As thecontents of Map windows are stored inthe memory, Map windows will redrawmaps much quicker than before.

In addition, you can now zoom withany zoom factor and browse through amap using panning. The scale at whichmaps should be displayed can be speci-fied and is continuously reported.

ILWIS 3.0 Layout WindowThe new object type layout has beenintroduced to produce (printed) out-put. A layout is a virtual sheet of paperon which you can position one or moremap views and additional annotation.You can specify the scale at which eachmap view should be displayed and laterprinted. As annotation, you can addlegends, texts, a North arrow, a scalebar, scale text, a map border (includingco-ordinates and ticks), boxes, bitmapsand pictures, and a page border. All“objects” added to a layout can behandled via the Layout Managementpane.

For more information on ILWIS 3.0Academic, you are invited to have alook at our webpages:http://www.itc.nl/ilwis



The ILWIS project team

Main window with two Catalogs (the Catalog on top is in DetailsView) and the Operation-tree

Map window containing a colour composite and some vectormaps, the Layer Management pane, and a docked histogram win-dow showing the histogram of the red, green and blue bands ofthe colour composite

Layout window: contains a layout consisting of a map view andvarious annotations, and the Layout Management pane

Contacts between ITC and the IndianGovernment with regard to remotesensing date back to the 1960s, whenITC supported the establishment inDehra Dun of the Indian Photo-inter-pretation Institute (IPI) – later renamedthe Indian Institute for Remote Sensing(IIRS) – a training unit of the NationalRemote Sensing Agency (NRSA), underthe Department of Space (DOS), Gov-ernment of India, and one of ITC’s sis-ter institutes. At the moment, IIRS andITC are collaborating in a project oneducation and training in the field ofdisaster management and geo-infor-matics.

India has its own successful and ambi-tious space programme under the aus-pices of the Department of Space(DOS). DOS, through the Indian SpaceResearch Organisation (ISRO), is en-

gaged in an elaborate space pro-gramme tuned to national develop-ment. One of its major elements is theremote sensing programme of IRS(Indian Remote Sensing Satellite) mis-sions. Today these provide data world-wide. IRS operational and research ap-plications are co-ordinated under a na-tional natural resources managementsystem (NNRMS) – a multi-agency pro-gramme for using remote sensing andGIS for natural resources managementin the country and also for advancedresearch. ISRO carries out research inremote sensing and GIS applications,much of which bears similarities toITC’s own research spearheads. ISRO’sremote sensing research programme isvery much development-oriented, par-ticularly with respect to providing geo-spatial information to strengthen deci-sion making at local level and improve-ments in society.

On 15 June 2001, Dr. K. Kasturirangan,chairman of ISRO, held a seminar in theITC Auditorium on India’s space pro-gramme, with particular reference tothe earth observation component. Thiswas very well attended by both staffand students.

Subsequent discussions between Dr.Kasturirangan and ITC’s directorate re-sulted in an agreement to broaden thescope of ISRO and ITC collaboration toinclude – alongside existing educationand training – research and consul-tancy. Dr. Kasturirangan also took partin discussions on the greater involve-ment of ITC in the activities of the UN



Dr. K. Kasturirangan, chairman ofISRO, held a seminar in the ITC

Auditorium on India’s space pro-gramme, with particular reference to

the earth observation component

Chairman Indian SpaceResearch Organisation

Visits ITCMukund Rao [email protected]


Dr. K. Kasturirangan,

chairman of the Indian

Space Research Organi-

sation (ISRO), visits ITC

to discuss collaboration

in research and educa-

tion activities.



Centre for Space Science and Technol-ogy Education in Asia and the Pacific(CSSTE-AP) in Dehra Dun. It wasagreed that ITC and ISRO would iden-tify possible areas of research interest,the aim being to undertake collabora-tive research programmes in the devel-opment of techniques and the applica-tions of remote sensing and GIS. ISROand ITC would also look for opportuni-ties where they could jointly channelapplication strengths and cater to mar-ket demands for natural resourcesmanagement and sustainable develop-ment applications.

ITC also aims to link up with CSSTE-AP.CSSTE-AP, hosted by ISRO/India, oper-ates under the aegis of the UN Officefor Outer Space Affairs (UN-OOSA) andis the first of the five regional UN cen-tres to be established. The objective ofthese UN centres is to enhance the na-tional capabilities of the member statesin the different areas of space scienceand technology that can contribute

their social and economic development.CSSTE-AP was established in India in1995. The Centre provides four 21-month Master’s programmes, includinga nine-month postgraduate diplomamodule. One of these programmes isin remote sensing and GIS and is con-ducted at IIRS, ITC’s sister institute. ITCstaff also contribute to the CSSTE-APcourse as visiting experts. After thenine months at Dehra Dun, participantsreturn to their home country to com-plete a one-year project, leading to theaward of an MTech. In view of ITC’sdecentralisation strategy, collaborationand the linking of educational pro-grammes with CSSTE-AP, and also withIIRS, are now under consideration.

ITC, ISRO and CSSTE-AP aim to worktogether not only in furthering com-mon goals but also in ensuring theavailability of quality education, re-search and consultancy in the field ofgeo-spatial information.

Components of India’s Earth Observation programme

“As there is no national cadastre inPeru, municipalities are responsiblefor creating cadastral systems forproperty tax collection. While thelaw and regulations on local cadas-tres are clear and relatively simple,the question of why so few munici-palities have a working system stillremains. It seems that the imple-mentation gap is underestimated.

PEGUP ProjectSince 1998, ITC and the Institute forHousing and Urban DevelopmentStudies, Rotterdam, have been work-ing with local partners in Lima,Arequipa and Trujillo on the PEGUPproject (Programa de Educación enGestión Urbana para el Perú; PeruUrban Management Education Pro-gramme). Within this project, ITC hasassisted in the development and imple-mentation of a cadastral informationsystem for and with the Municipality ofTrujillo.

Large-Scale MapWhen early in 1999 a large-scale basemap of the city became available fromthe privatised telephone company,Telefonica de Peru, the municipalityasked the PEGUP project to assist in inte-grating this map with the existing prop-erty database. Although the municipali-ty’s ambition to create a multipurposecadastre ran high, this has since been re-duced to a ‘first things first’ approach,initially concentrating on improving mu-nicipal property tax revenues.

Information SystemA proposal was made for a coding sys-tem and the map was converted into aGIS system with a link to the existingdatabase. On-the-spot training at theuniversity (also a PEGUP partner) en-abled 25,000 urban parcels (the cityhas approximately 40,000 parcels intotal) to be labelled with the cadastralcode within several months. However,it came as no surprise to find that theattribute data lacked information onmany parcels and, consequently, theowners didn’t pay any property tax.

Property TaxThe municipal council required thecosts and benefits of a cadastral systemto be quantified. So, for one neigh-bourhood (2,540 parcels), a compari-son was made by verifying the actualproperty in the area (building material,number of floors, land use) and usingthe database. Costs of updating thedatabase and the increase in tax rev-enues proved to be very beneficial forthe municipality, and notice was imme-diately sent to the inhabitants. Thecouncil adopted a resolution, and city-wide implementation could begin.


P R O J E C T N E W S

project news from Bureau Project Coordination

Municipal Cadastre in Trujillo, Peru ...

Mind the Implementation Gap!

Jan Turkstra [email protected]

The Implementation GapThe shift from a relatively simple pilotproject to the operational phase madeit necessary to involve more partners,such as the water company and thepublic register, and to link their data-bases to the municipal system in orderto facilitate comparisons and reducethe cost of updates. At this stage ofthe project, much more time was spentin mainly overcoming institutional bar-riers and in selling the idea that work-ing together by using GIS can improvethe quality of information.

Lessons Learned- Step-by-step approach with clear

benefits for all partners- Keep an information system as simple

as possible- Embedding through personal and in-

stitutional incentives- Political support is essential.



Land “Rites”: Land Tenure for the Urban Poor

Jan Turkstra and Ayako Kagawa [email protected]; [email protected]

“Legal security of tenure and equalaccess to land for all people” wasone of the agreements of theHabitat II conference in Istanbul in1986. During a recent UN generalassembly meeting held in New York(6 to 8 June), the results of theHabitat agenda were evaluated. ITCparticipated as a registered UN-NGO. Research on the land tenuresituation in 15 countries was pre-sented, including a case study con-ducted by ITC on formalising infor-mal property in Peru. Four cases (in-cluding the one on Peru) wereshown in a film transmitted by BBCWorld.

A review of the land tenure situation in15 countries showed that in manycities pressure of eviction and insecurityof tenure are not only still present butin some cases even increasing. This isone of the reasons that the UnitedNations for Human Settlements(Habitat) launched a “global campaignfor secure tenure”. What is particularlystriking is the fact that the local contextis very important. Approaches such asindividual titling and registration mightwork in some countries but in othersthey may be ineffective or even havenegative impacts on the tenure securityof the urban poor.

Based on earlier research by AyakoKagawa and the urban management(PEGUP) project in Peru in which ITC isinvolved, Geoffrey Payne asked theInstitute to conduct research on landtenure in Peru – Peru because a projectis being implemented there to for-malise informal urban property on amassive scale. This research was carriedout in November 2000 and a briefsummary is given below.

Peru: Titled to be EntitledIn 1983, when Ms. Josefa ErrelosRamirez moved into Juan Pablo II, aninformal settlement lying at the north-ern periphery of Metropolitan Lima,the area did not officially exist. It wasonly recognised by the district ofCarabayllo in 1993, but no water,garbage collection or electricity wereprovided for the neighbourhood.However, things have changed since1999. Garbage collectors now cometwice a week, electricity has been in-

Juan Pablo II

stalled and almost all households haveland titles. Land titling and registrationnormally involve long tedious bureau-cratic procedures but these land titleswere given within two weeks. So why,suddenly, did it take the residents ofJuan Pablo II so little time to becomeowners when it had taken nearly adecade to achieve recognition?

Formalising InformalityThe Peruvian Government took into ac-count what Hernando de Soto hadvoiced in the 1980s in his acclaimedbook The Other Path. He saw that tostimulate economic development – ifdevelopment was to be achieved – thePeruvian bureaucratic system needed afaster and simpler process of integrat-ing the informal city into the formalcity. This critique prompted the interestof the Peruvian Government in imple-menting a national regularisation pol-icy.

The initiative led to the setting up ofCOFOPRI (Comisión de Formalizaciónde la Propiedad Informal) in 1996.With the co-ordination of RPU(Registro Predial Urbano), the aim wasto create a mortgage-based credit andreal estate market through formal landownership in previously informal settle-ments. With the financial backing ofthe World Bank, land titling and regis-tration began on a massive scale, andtoday COFOPRI claims to have achievedits objective of titling one million titles.

The Secret Ingredients and Mysteriesof TitlingSo why was COFOPRI able to provideone million titles to residents of infor-mal settlements over a span of just fiveyears?

The urban population of Peru is con-centrated in the coastal region, whereland tends to be sandy and unproduc-tive unless investment is made in irriga-tion. Also, the majority of these desertareas are owned by the State. The far-ther the land is from the city centre,the more likely it is to be unproductivesandy state-owned land.Consequently, when Ms. Ramirez ille-gally occupied the land, the PeruvianGovernment did not evict her and shestayed on. This means there is littlethreat of eviction and it is thereforeeasier for Peruvians to gain de factotenure rights to occupy and use theland – and to build their lives. Thisphysical and legal combination of un-productive sandy areas and a tenurestatus of state-owned land can be seenas a major success factor in the scale ofits policy implementation.

The technical mysteries in COFOPRI’sformalisation process relate to the bal-ance between quantity and quality oftitles. Although one million titles havebeen granted to residents of informalsettlements, it is important to note thatsome households have two titles: onegiven by the municipalities or formercentral government in the 1970s or1980s and registered in the traditionalPublic Registry (Registro PublicoInmueble), the other the new COFOPRItitle registered in the recently createdRPU, which registers only those parcelsin the informal settlements.

Regularisation and DevelopmentA policy does not come by success eas-ily or quickly. It needs a strong politicaland institutional environment so thateffective legislation can be enforced.This law also needs to be linked witheconomic and social activities at bothhousehold and neighbourhood levels.Unless these are co-ordinated, the titles



Ms. Josefa Ramirez with a colleague from the community leaders’ organisation



given cannot be used effectively for abetter house, a better life. People likeMs. Ramirez want better employmentopportunities and access to bank loansto improve their houses and educatetheir children.

Real Secret to the Hidden Ingredientof TitlingCOFOPRI’s activities are still in their in-fancy but it is hard to deny they havedrawn the land issue of the urban poorto the attention of the rest of Peruviansociety.

By focusing on formalising the informalproperty of the urban poor, COFOPRIhas sent a strong message to Peruviansthat it does care about the urban poorand that the government is willing totake action. COFOPRI has been able tobridge the gap between the formaland informal city by enhancing the“sense” of legal tenure security. In thisrespect, the formalisation process hasled informal urban dwellers to feel theyhave finally become formal urbandwellers. This has affected the Peruvianurban mental landscape. Developmentin economic and social aspects is thenext step.

The research on innovative approachesto secure tenure for the urban poorwas initiated by Geoffrey Payne([email protected]) and sponsoredby DFID (Department for InternationalDevelopment, UK). Besides the film, amedia pack has been produced, andSettling for more: innovative ap-proaches to tenure for the urban poor,a book edited by Geoffrey Payne, is ex-pected to be available towards the endof 2001. Follow-up research is pro-posed in the form of a longitudinalstudy to evaluate the impact of theCOFOPRI project on the consolidationand development of previously infor-mal settlements.

For further information, please [email protected] or [email protected]

Conceptual framework of land tenure process within the wider urban landscape

Major General Ir. Pranoto Asmoro,Honorary Fellow of ITC since 1976,passed away on 29 April 2001 inJakarta, Indonesia, at the age of 78.He was laid to rest at Taman MakamPahlawan (the military cemetery) atKalibata, Jakarta, Indonesia, on 30April.

Ir. Pranoto Asmoro graduated as ageodetic engineer from the Universityof Indonesia, Faculty of Engineering(now Bandung Institute of Technology),in 1958. From 1958 to 1962, he was amember of staff at the IndonesianArmy Engineering College. During thisperiod, he followed advanced coursesin topography at Fort Belvoir, Virginia,USA. He was subsequently appointeddirector of the college (1962 to 1965).

In 1965, Ir. Pranoto Asmoro became di-rector of the Indonesian TopographicalService, a position he held until 1970,

when he founded the IndonesianNational Coordination Agency for Sur-veys and Mapping (BAKOSURTANAL).He was the Agency’s first chairman,serving from 1970 until 1975. In thisposition, he was part-time head of theArmed Forces Surveys and Mapping,assistant to the Minister of State forResearch, secretary of the NationalCommittee for Natural Resources, andchairman of the National TechnicalCommittee responsible for surveys andthe demarcation of the internationalboundary between Indonesia andMalaysia.

Always a very strong supporter of co-operation between Indonesia and ITC,he was the guiding force behind theestablishment in Bandung of theCentre for Education in Photogramme-try and Cartography (PPFK), the formerITC sister institute that has since beenincorporated as a laboratory into theDepartment of Geodetic Engineeringof the Bandung Institute of Technol-ogy. In recognition of his contribution tothe establishment of PPFK, ITC’s Boardof Governors nominated Ir. PranotoAsmoro Honorary Fellow in 1976.

In April 2000, Ir. Pranoto Asmoro, to-gether with Ir. Soekiman Atmosoedarjo(Fellow since 1976) and Prof. Dr. Ir.Jacub Rais (Fellow since 1988), metwith Prof. Martien Molenaar, rector ofITC, in Jakarta. Ir. Pranoto Asmoro issurvived by his wife and five children.During their visit to Indonesia in May,Prof. Molenaar and Director ExternalAffairs Sjaak Beerens paid a visit to thewife and family of the late Ir. PranotoAsmoro to pay their respects.


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Ir Pranoto Asmoro (second from left) at dinnerwith former Rector Karl Harmsen andIndonesian Honorary Fellows

The late Major General Ir. PranotoAsmoro

ITC’s rector and director External Affairs paid a visit to the wife and family of the late Ir Pranoto Asmoro

announcements

Obituary

Honorary Fellow Ir. Pranoto Asmoro Passes Away




ITC will actively participate in the5th AFRICAGIS Conference and Ex-hibition, which will be held at theheadquarters of the United NationsEnvironment Programme (UNEP) inNairobi, Kenya, from 5 to 9 Novem-ber 2001.

The objective of AFRICAGIS is to pro-vide a platform for geoinformationprofessionals from Africa and abroadto learn about the application of geoin-formation technology, and to hearabout the latest products and techno-logical developments. It will also pro-vide an opportunity for interactionamong practitioners – the chance toshare information and knowledge inorder to further the development andapplication of geoinformation tech-nologies to meet African needs.

AFRICAGIS ‘01 is the fifth in the series,and will be hosted jointly by theMinistry of Lands and Settlement ofKenya and the United Nations Environ-mental Programme (UNEP), with thesupport of the Geoinformation Societyof Kenya, the Regional Centre forMapping of Resources for Development(RCMRD), the International Centre ofInsect Physiology & Ecology (ICIPE) andmany other Kenyan institutions.

ThemeThe theme for AFRICAGIS ‘01 is“Enhancing socio-economic develop-ment with geo-spatial knowledge”.This theme has been chosen to posi-tion geoinformation and its exploita-tion in the domain of the informationeconomy, which is driving the worldtoday. The conference will explore thechallenges and options for using geoin-formation and communication tech-

nologies to describe, disseminate andexploit knowledge about the available“assets” for sustainable developmentand socio-economic growth in Africa.

Four sub-themes will address variousaspects of the main theme:• “Policy, decisions and sustainable de-

velopment – bridging the knowledgegap”

• “Geography and the new economy– competing with geo-spatial knowl-edge”

• “Investing in, and exploiting data”• “Empowerment through the strategic

use of geoinformation”.

ITC ParticipationITC will actively participate inAFRICAGIS in various ways:• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kainz plans to

hold a workshop on “Fuzzy Logic inGIS and Applications”

• ITC will have a booth at the exhibi-tion, where it will present its currenteducational programme, researchprogramme and project services

• Exhibition of our partner organisa-tions, such as EISCAP from Dar EsSalaam, Tanzania.

Furthermore, a refresher course will beorganised on Data Analysis for NaturalResource Management, starting 12 No-vember. This refresher course will beorganised in collaboration with the Re-gional Center for Mapping of Resourcesfor Development, headed by Dr. WilberOttichilo, ITC alumnus.

During the conference, ITC will organ-ise a reception in Nairobi for ITC alumni– they will soon be receiving more in-formation.Mireille Meester of the CommunicationDepartment ([email protected]) will beco-ordinating ITC’s participation.If you would like more informationabout the conference, you can visit theAFRICAGIS website at: http://www.icipe.org/africagis2001.

ITC Participates in AFRICAGIS

Mireille Meester [email protected]

Alumni attending the AFRICAGIS conference who are interested in theAcademic version of ILWIS 3.0 (introduction elsewhere in this issue of ITCNews) will have a chance to buy this software (NLG295 / US$ 125 / m135). Ifyou are interested in this offer, you can contact Lyande Eelderink, ILWIS net-work co-ordinator ([email protected]). Please mention that you want to collectILWIS 3.0 at the AFRICAGIS conference.



Why is governance and the use ofGIS relevant to countries in theSouth? Many ITC alumni will al-ready be involved in governance is-sues and well aware that across alllevels of government there has longbeen the need to develop improvedsystems of governance that will en-able society to develop in more sus-tainable and equitable manner. Thescope of governance not only in-cludes the delivery of key publicservices but also the provision of amechanism to facilitate stronger re-lationships between civil society, thepublic sector, non-governmental, vol-untary, and private sector organisa-tions and to increase and improveactual participation in developmentand decision-making processes.

The spatial aspects of governance canbe supported by the use of GeographicInformation Technology (GIT) tools.These can improve the quantity andquality of spatial information and en-hance analytical capabilities, which inturn should lead to a better under-standing of development problems andtheir possible solutions, for all includedin the governance process.

This will be the sixth Seminar on GISand Developing Countries and isbeing co-organised by the Interna-tional GISDECO Committee and ITCLocal Committee. The main purpose ofthe seminar is to facilitate the ex-change of knowledge and practical ex-perience between experts and users ofGIS applied to governance issues. Theseminar will explore how various stake-holder groups are using GIS, and howthis is explicitly or implicitly affectinggovernance systems in developingcountries, by addressing issues relatedto applications in urban and rural set-tings. A wide range of contributions tothe seminar is invited in the form of pa-pers, presentations and posters. Welook forward to welcoming many ofyou back to Enschede as participants inthis GISDECO seminar next May.

For more information please visit theGISDECO homepage http://www.geog.uu.nl/gisdeco/gisdeco.html

Seminar ‘Governance and the use of GIS in DevelopingCountries’, ITC, The Netherlands, 15th-18th May 2002

Karen Buchanan [email protected]



More than 250 participants from 49countries attended the 5th GlobalSpatial Data Infrastructure confer-ence (GSDI 5). The Conference tookplace in Cartagena, Colombia dur-ing May 22-24, 2001.

Organized under the theme “Sustain-able Development: GSDI for ImprovedDecision-Making”, the event was anexciting and informative opportunityfor geodata producers and SDI technol-ogy developers to share ideas and expe-riences with decision-makers from pub-lic and private sectors. The Colombiangovernment took a leading role withGSDI through its national mappingagency, Agustin Codazzi GeographicInstitute -IGAC, one of ITC’s sister insti-tutes. The set of resolutions and paperssubmitted to GSDI 5 are available at:http://codazzi4.igac.gov.co/gsdi5and at: http://www.gsdi.org

GSDI 5 highlights included:• GSDI to produce a statement on the

need for global data sets for sustain-able development, to be tabled at theforthcoming UN Rio+10 Summit tak-ing place at Johannesburg, SouthAfrica in 2002

• To better achieve its goal and objec-tives, GSDI resolved that in the shortterm intends to evolve into a pub-lic/private not-for-profit organization

• Industry participation increases, mov-ing from conventional conferencesponsorship to a direct involvementin GSDI activities

• In memory of the late John Estes,Chair, International Steering Com-mittee on Global Mapping (ISCGM).Jack Dangermond, ESRI Presidentlaunched a five million dollars grantfor GSDI and Global Mapping

• PC IDEA and its sister committee forAsia and the Pacific -PCGIAP, signeda Memorandum of Understanding,addressed to promote commonground areas for SDI development atthe regional level.

GSDI AuthoritiesFor the period 2001-2002 SantiagoBorrero, Director General, IGAC waselected as Chair, GSDI SteeringCommittee, replacing Derek Clarkefrom South Africa. At the same timeIan Masser, President of the EuropeanUmbrella Organization for GeographicInformation -EUROGI (and Professor ofUrban Planning and Management atITC) was appointed Vice Chair. The USFederal Geographic Data Committeecontinues hosting the Secretariat, withJohn Moeller as principal. As well, BasKok and Harlan Onsrud will remain asCo-chairing the Legal and EconomicsWorking Group and Doug Nebert, asChair of the Technical Working Group.

GSDI 6 The goal of GSDI is to advance aware-ness, acceptance and implementationof globally compatible spatial data in-frastructure at the local, national andregional levels. GSDI 6 is being organ-ised by the European UmbrellaOrganisation for Geographic Informa-tion (EUROGI) in conjunction with theHungarian national GI association (HU-NAGI). The theme for this conference is‘From global to local’. This emphasisesthe extent to which the GSDI must beseen a part of an overall strategy forgeographic information. The decision

Ian Masser (centre) with JackDangermond (left) –ESRI– andDerek Clarke (right) –SouthAfrica– outgoing GSDI SteeringCommittee Chair

Global Spatial Data Infrastructures

Ian Masser [email protected]

Cartagena, Colombia venue for GSDI 5



to hold a conference on this topic inEurope at the present time is particu-larly appropriate given the large num-ber of local, national and EuropeanUnion initiatives that are under way tomodernise government.

Conference topics will include reportson many local, national and regionalSDI initiatives throughout the globeand their impact on governments. Allauthors, when presenting local and/ornational SDI initiatives, will be expectedto interpret the meaning into a globalcontext. Leading representatives forthe GI industry will also be invited togive their views on new trends andemerging technologies. Other presen-

tations will include reports on the workthat is being carried out by the GSDISecretariat and the Working Groupsunder the auspices of its InternationalSteering Committee as well as briefingson current developments from each ofthe major regions of the world and sis-ter organisations including UNGIWG,Global Map, Digital Earth, and GDIN.

Papers and short presentations are alsoinvited from individuals or organisationson the following conference topics:• Regional and national SDIs in the con-

text of Government• State/provincial/ metropolitan SDI

experiences• Financing SDI development• Data sharing initiatives• Innovations in inter-organisational col-

laboration: e.g. the Dutch large scalemapping project (GBKN).

Individuals or organisations wishing tomake a presentation are invited tosubmit an abstract (200-300 words inlength, plus affiliation and contactdetails) describing the content of theirproposed presentation to EUROGI([email protected]) by December 31st2001.

Ian Masser with EUROGI SecretaryGeneral Anton Wolfkamp

Santiago Borrero, Chair GSDISteering Committee and head ofIGAC, ITC’s sister institute

Platform party during the Opening Ceremony

Award for ITC Professor

Janneke Kalf [email protected]

Prof. Dr. John L. van Genderen, head ofITC's division of Applied Geomorpholog-ical Surveys, was recently appointedHonorary Professor of Geography at theNational University of Mongolia inUlaan Baatar. During an impressive cer-emony, he received the academic robeand silver chain of office from Prof. Dr.Gonchigsumlaa, dean of the Faculty ofEarth Sciences.

The vice-president of the University forResearch presented the certificate outliningProf. van Genderen's contributions over thepast five years to the field of geography ingeneral and the 10 years dedicated to



knowledge transfer to Mongolia. ITChas trained some dozen scientists fromMongolia to date, and seven more willbe coming to Enschede for the courses

starting in September 2001. Prof. vanGenderen is also Honorary Professor ofRemote Sensing at both WuhanUniversity and the XI'AN University ofScience and Technology in China.

ITC would like to take this opportunityof congratulating him on this newaward.

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Paul van der Molen, Kadaster’s cor-porate director of Land Informationand Geodesy, gave his inauguraladdress as a visiting professor at theInternational Institute of AerospaceSurvey and Earth Sciences (ITC) on26 April. Before an audience ofsome 200 invited guests, he listednumerous examples, taken from allover the world, illustrating the im-portance of the land issue in the de-velopment of societies. He said thatreviewing the manner in whichgovernments dealt with land, andthe role of land administration wasa matter of urgency.

Role of Land AdministrationHe reported extensively on the rolethat land administration played in theimplementation of land policy – by im-proving land tenure security, by regu-lating the land market, in planning anddevelopment, and in land taxation.Still, he concluded that land adminis-tration did not always support policyimplementation adequately. The rea-sons were twofold. Without an appro-priate legal framework or transparentpublic administration structures, landadministration could only make thebest of a bad job. This understandingof the context of the rule of law andgood governance placed the phenom-enon “land administration” right at theheart of the issue of comprehensivedevelopment. Furthermore, the peopleinvolved in land administration did notalways seem blessed with a talent fororganising their business.

OptimismHe did express optimism, however, asregards the future, observing that notonly was the vital importance of land

administration now widely recognisedbut there was also an increasingawareness of the relationship betweenland policy and land administration.Numerous innovative ideas had re-cently been developed with respect tointegrating customary rights into theland administration activity, formalisinginformal settlements, land reform,cheap and fast map-making tech-niques, and the support of ICT.

Nevertheless, much research was stillneeded. The best approach would beto handle institutional matters on theone hand, and operational issues onthe other. He said that ITC studentsshould be provided with workabletools in a well-defined context.

The full text is available by e-mail [email protected]

Paul van der Molen giving his inaugural address at ITC

Ir Paul van der Molen VisitingProfessor in Land Administrationand Cadastre at ITC

“Cadastres Revisited:The Promised Land of Land Administration”:

Inaugural Address by Paul van der Molen

Source: Kadaster Abroad, July 2001



On Friday, 27 April, Director ExternalAffairs Sjaak Beerens welcomed per-sonnel from SwedeSurvey and Manag-ing Director Sture Petterson to ITC, aspart of a European study tour. The pro-gramme included lectures by Messrs.Rob Lemmens, Chrit Lemmen and WanBakx, as well as a guided tour of thebuilding.

The tour of the building included a visit toITC’s Remote Sensing and GIS (RSG) laboratory

The delegation of SwedeSurvey

SWEDESURVEY Visits ITC


As per 1 June 2001, ITC’s directorate has appointed

Mr. Mark Noort MSc (1960)as head of the Bureau Project Services at ITC.

Mr. Noort has been project officer with ITC’s Bureau Project Services since 1998. Inhis new capacity he will be responsible for the acquisition, implementation and ad-ministrative arrangement of all project activities carried out by ITC.

Appointment new head Bureau Project Services


Dear Sir,

I am happy to inform that I have been offered a Part-time

Lectureship at the Department of Geography and Resource

Development of University of Ghana to

teach Hydrology.

Would you believe that I am the Pioneer Lecturer in the

field of Hydrology at the Geography Department. Look at the

benefit of the training of ITC to the entire country of

Ghana. Oh, bravo to ITC, bravo to NFP, bravo to The

Netherlands Government.

I thank you and the entire staff for the training you gave

me. God has opened many opportunities for me from the

training I had from ITC. I have utilised every bit of the

knowledge I acquired. Thank you, thank you. May God bless

you all. Let the staff know that their labour was not in

vain and that we are very appreciative of their contribu-

tion to where we are now.

ERNEST KUSI-MINKAH

Ghana

[email protected]

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BANGLADESHNetherlands Alumni Association ofBangladeshMr. Qazi H. Kabir, Secretary General42/7 Block F, Babar RoadMohammadpur, Dhaka 1207,BangladeshPhone: 880.2.323855

BULGARIABulgarian-Dutch Alumni AssociationP.O. Box 1196Sofia - 1000, BulgariaPresident: Dr. Tihomir B. MustakovPhone: 359.2.769230 Fax: 359.2.518601

ECUADORAsociacion Ecuatoriana de ex-Becariosy Amigos del Reino de los Paises BajosAvenida 10 de Agosto 3815 y Mariana deJesusTercer piso, Oficina 302, Edificio VillacisPazosQuito, EcuadorPresident: Srta. Sigrid VasconezPhone: 593.2.552124

EGYPTNetherlands Alumni Associationc/o Dr.Wadid Erian54-Ahmed El Sawy StreetMakram Abide, Nasr CityCairo, EgyptPhone: 012 213 7004 and 2746513Fax: (202)5884066

GHANAGhana Netherlands AlumniAssociation (GNAA)P.O. Box 8148Accra-North, GhanaInterim President: Mr. S.A. AmoahPhone (Netherlands Embassy):233.21.773664Fax (Netherlands Embassy):233.21.773655

INDIANetherlands Alumni Association ofIndiaProf. C.P. TewariC-3/3004, Vasant KunjNew Delhi 110 070, IndiaPhone: 91.11.6897773

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KENYANetherlands Association of AlumniKenyap/a Royal Netherlands EmbassyBox 41537Nairobi, KenyaChairman: Mr. I.M. KilonzoPhone: 254.2.227111 Fax: 254.2.339155

KOREAKorea Netherlands Alumni Association(KNAA)C.P.O. Box 7173Seoul, Korea Final InformationPresident: Dr. Woo, Hae SeungPhone: 82.2.2524597 (office),82.342.702.8606 (home)

MALAYSIAAlumni Association of Malaysiac/o Royal Netherlands Embassy4 Jalan Mesra55000 Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaPhone: 60.3.2485151 Fax: 60.3.2411959

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SINGAPOREThe Netherlands Alumni Associationof Singapore (NAAS)P.O. Box 99Bras Basah Post Branch, Singapore 0718President: Mr. Soon See CheongFax: 65.7382979

SRI LANKAThe Netherlands Alumni Associationof LankaNo. 95, Prince StreetColombo 11, Sri LankaPresident: Mr. R.P. WimalasenaPhone: 94.1.581998 Fax: 94.1.581145

TAIWANNetherlands Alumni Associationof Taiwanc/o Prof.dr.ir. Daniel JiangGraduate Institute of Civil and HydraulicEngineeringFeng Chia University5th floor, C-H Building100, Wenwha RoadTaichung, Republic of ChinaPhone: 886.4.2528158Fax: 886.4.2960877Email: [email protected]

THAILANDNetherlands Alumni Association ofThailand (NAAT)Chief, Foreign Relations Sub-DivisionThai Industrial Standards InstituteRama 6 RoadBangkok 10400, ThailandPresident: Mrs. Uraiwan ChandryuPhone: 66.2.2464085; 2461174 Fax: 66.2.2487987

UGANDAITC Alumni Association UgandaDepartment of Forest Products EngineeringFaculty of Forestry and Nature ConservationMakerere UniversityP.O. Box 7062Kampala, UgandaMr. Mwambu George Charles Magomu,Organising SecretaryPhone: 256.41.543647; 543648 Fax: 256.41.533574

VIETNAMVietnam Netherlands Alumni Club (VNAC)105A Quan Thanh StreetHanoi, VietnamChaiman: Prof.dr. Pham Huy DungPhone: 84.4.8454547 Fax: 84.4.8432756

Alumni associationslisting of all Netherlands and ITC alumni as-

sociations. Alumni who would like to set-up

similar associations in their own country can

contact ITC.

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ITC News September 2001

International Seminar on LandInformation Management andCadastral Systems

2 – 5 October 2001Nairobi, Kenya

Information: FIG Office, Lindevangs Alle4, DK 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark (tel 45-3886-1081; fax 45-3886-0252, e-mail [email protected])

20th Brazilian Congress ofCartography

7 – 12 October 2001Brazil

Information: Francisco Carlos Bragançade Souza, General Director of XXCBC,Office Marketing, Rua 17 de Junho,436 Porto Alegre RS Brazil, CEP 90-110-170 (tel 55-51-226-8600; fax 55-51-211-3631; e-mail xxcbc@orion,ufrgs.br;web-site www.ufrgs.br/xxcbc

Urban Geoinformatics InternationalConference

16-19 October 2001-04-25Wuhan, China

Information: Prof. Lan Yunchao, Schoolof Urban Studies, Wuhan University,129 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430079, P.R.China (tel +86-27-8788 5922 x 2181;fax +86-27-8786 4683; e-mail:[email protected]; web-sitewww.wtusm.edu.cn)

International Workshop on 3DCadastres

28 – 30 November 2001Delft, The Netherlands

Information: Elfriede M Fendel, DelftUniversity of Technology, Faculty of CivilEngineering and Geosciences,Department of Geodesy, Thijsseweg 1,2629 JA Delft, The Netherlands (tel 31-15-278-4548, fax 31-15-278-2745;e-mail [email protected])

3rd International Conference onGeospatial Information inAgriculture and Forestry

5 – 7 November 2001Denver, CO, USA

Information: Veridian GeospatialInformation Conference, PO Box134008, Ann Arbor, MI 48113-4008,USA (tel 1-734-994-1200 ext 3234; fax 1-734-994-5123; e-mail [email protected]; web-site www.erim-int.com/CONF/ag)

Africa GIS-2001 Conference andExpo

5 – 9 November 2001Nairobi, Kenya

Information: Humphrey K Njuguna (tel 254-2-444-837; fax 254-2-443-828; e-mail [email protected]; web-site www.icipe.org/africagis2001)

International Symposium on SpatialData Infrastructures (SDIs)

19 – 20 November 2001Melbourne, Australia

Information: Department of Geomatics,The University of Melbourne, Victoria3010, Australia (fax 61-3-9347-4128; e-mail [email protected];web-site www.sli.unimelb.edu.au/SDI)

International Workshop on 3DCadastres

28 – 30 November 2001Delft, The Netherlands

Information: Elfriede M Fendel, DelftUniversity of Technology, Faculty of CivilEngineering and Geosciences,Department of Geodesy, Thijsseweg 1,2629 JA Delft, The Netherlands (tel 31-15-278-4548, fax 31-15-278-2745; e-mail [email protected])

RS and GIS Accuracy AssessmentSymposium

11 – 13 December 2001Las Vegas, NV, USA

Information: (fax 1-919-541-1137; e-mail [email protected])

Meeting of Teachers of Surveying

17 – 19 December 2001Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Information: Stuart Edwards,Department of Geomatics, University ofNewcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE17RU, England (tel 44-191-22-5473; fax 44-191-222-8691; e-mail [email protected])

Map India 2002

6 – 8 February 2002New Delhi, India

Information: Map India Secretariat,CSDMS, G-4, Sector 39, Noida 201301, U.P. India (web-sitewww.MapIndia.org)

Geomatica 2002

18 – 23 February 2002Habana, Cuba

Information: GEOMATICA 2002, Ing.Tatiana Delgado Fernández, Calle 6 No301 Esq. 3ra, Miramar, La Habana11300, Cuba (tel 53-7-22-1794; fax 53-7-24-2869; e-mail [email protected])

GIS 2002

11 - 13 March 2002Bahrain

Information: BSE (tel 973-()-727-100;fax 973-()-729-819; [email protected]; web-sitewww.mohandis.org)

First International Conference onthe State of Remote Sensing Law

18 – 19 April 2002Oxford, MS, USA

Information: Ms Edie King (tel 1-662-915-6951; e-mail [email protected])

6th Seminar on GIS and DevelopingCountries

15 – 18 May 2002Enschede, The Netherlands

Information: GISDECO 2002,Internatinal Institute for AerospaceSurvey and Earth Sciences, P.O. Box 6,7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands(fax 31-53-4874 400; e-mail [email protected]; web-sitewww.itc.nl)

22nd EARSeL Annual Symposium

4 – 6 June 2002Prague, Czeck Republic

Information: EARSeL, 2 avenue Rapp, F-75340 Paris, Cedex 07, France (tel 33-1-4556-7360; fax 33-1-4556-7361; e-mail [email protected]; web-sitewww.earsel.org)

IEEE/IGARSS 2002

24 – 28 June 2002Toronto, Canada

Information: Tammy Stein (tel 1-281-251-6067; fax 1-281-251-6068; [email protected])


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