Remote Sensing, Digital Mapping, and Geographical Information Systems: The Creation of National Policy in the United Kingdom

D W Rhind
Additional contact information
D W Rhind: Birkbeck College, 7-15 Gresse Street, London W1P 1PA, England

Environment and Planning C, 1986, vol. 4, issue 1, 91-102

Abstract: The House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology has examined remote sensing and digital mapping, taking the view that these represented converging fields of endeavour which are now of considerable scientific and commercial importance. This paper reports the way in which the Committee worked and how it saw the main issues—such as establishing user needs, the availability of trained manpower, and the availability of software tools (Geographical Information Systems or GIS) for handling the rapidly increasing data volumes. The Committee's conclusions with regard to GIS are itemised and the Government's response to these recommendations is examined. Finally, the roles of the leading ‘actors’ in the report creation process are briefly examined.

Date: 1986
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/c040091 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:envirc:v:4:y:1986:i:1:p:91-102

DOI: 10.1068/c040091

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Environment and Planning C
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().