Cooperative Decentralization: A New Way to Build an Added Value Chain With Shared Multi-Resolution Satellite and Aerial Imagery and Geoinformation

Abstract

In this chapter we try to show that present Geospatial Informationproduction, dissemination and use scenario is very far from optimal,causing a lot of problems and shortcomings. The reason is that usualpresent organization of the GI life cycle in Most Countries wasconceived in the 19th century, in a completely different social andtechnological environment. New technologies recently developed in the GIdomain can help us face successfully the enormous challenges of 21stcentury. To take full advantage of this technical advances and improvethe knowledge of our world, completely new ways of organizing the GIprocesses are needed.