Joint Board of Geospatial Information Societies (JB GIS)

Mission

JB GIS) is a coalition of leading international geospatial societies which can speak on behalf of the geospatial profession at international level, especially to the United Nations and other global stakeholders. Its second goal is to coordinate activities within the geospatial society and organisations.

The JB GIS is a co-operation network and there are no obligations to the membership neither does the JB GIS collect any membership fees. The current members of the JB GIS are IAG, ICA, IEEE-GRSS, FIG, IGU, IHO, IMTA, ISCGM and ISPRS.

The JB GIS meets normally once a year in normal case linked to one of the conferences or other meetings of one or two of the member associations.

The JB GIS can appoint ad hoc committees for certain projects and important topics. Normally these committees shall have clear goals and are normally appointed for a limited time period.