The agro-ecological zoning of Guinea (ZAEG) project is currently mapping land cover and its evolution over 10 years. Funded by AFD (the French Development Agency), the ZAEG project is operated by IGN FI and CIRAD (French agricultural research and international cooperation organisation) with the aim of identifying arable land to guide Continue reading
The Republic of Uganda received financing from the World Bank through the Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project (CEDP). The Land Component of CEDP has the objective of creating an efficient and effective land administration system by facilitating the systematic formalization and registration of land rights. One of the technical aspects Continue reading
The presentation meeting for the project “Creating an exhaustive list of localities eligible to receive the Universal Electronic Communications Service in Gabon” took place in Libreville on Friday 29 November 2019. The consortium IGN FI / PROGRESYS/ INC presented the main results of the mission. Yvan GAUTHIER, project leader for Continue reading
The IFFN project, led by ONF International in a joint venture with the IGN and IGN FI, officially kicked off in January 2019. The second Steering Committee meeting took place on 30 October in Abidjan, when a progress update on activities relating to training and the inventory was presented. The evolution Continue reading
The IGN FI/ BRLi consortium has been awarded the regional contract to assess hazards, vulnerabilities and risks in the Member States of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), the international organisation promoting the economic, social and cultural development of the following Member States: Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Continue reading
A consortium made up of IGN FI/ GEOFIT/ GEODESIGN & BIZ has been awarded the delegated project management contract in Cameroon to carry out the activities comprising module 1 of the Project entitled “Modernisation of Land Registration and Estates”. The project, costing 1,465,480€ net of tax, is being financed by 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
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
