The following resolutions and recommendations were agreed to at the meeting:

Working Group 1: Regional Geodetic Network
Working Group 2: Regional Fundamental Data
Regional Development Needs Taskforce
Proposed PCGIAP cadastral working group

Working Group 1: Regional Geodetic Network

RESOLUTION : Regional Datum

Recognising the need for a uniform geodetic control system across the Asia and the Pacific region.

The PCGIAP resolves that :

The ITRF system and the GRS80 ellipsoid be adopted as the fundamental datum parameters for regional applications.

RECOMMENDATION : Geodesy Technical workshop

Recognizing the benefits arising from Geodesy Technical Workshops of the APRGP campaigns and the invitation by Mongolia to host such a meeting in UllanBaatar in mid 2000 .

The PCGIAP recommends that :

The Geodesy meeting to be held in Mongolia becomes an endorsed PCGIAP Technical Workshop

And further

PCGIAP encourages all members to send Geodesy technical representatives to the meeting in Mongolia.

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Working Group 2: Regional Fundamental Data

RECOMMENDATIONS

The PCGIAP meeting agreed to the following recommendations as presented by Working Group 2 to the plenary session on Thursday 22 April 1999:

1. That PCGIAP endorse the membership of the WG2 Executive Group;

2. That PCGIAP endorse the four workplans of WG2:
   1. Workplan for Policy for Sharing Fundamental Data
      
   2. Workplan for Regional Fundamental Datasets
      
   3. Workplan for APSDI Data Nodes
      
   4. Workplan for Regional GIS Application Demonstartions

3. That PCGIAP note the amendments to the draft policy on sharing fundamental data.

4. That PCGIAP members complete the questionnaire on regional fundamental datasets and return to the Secretariat within two months.
   

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Regional Development Needs Taskforce

RESOLUTION 1 - Pacific Group.

Recognising the unique needs and common interests of Pacific Island countries, the PCGIAP resolves to:

- recognise the Pacific Group as a body representing the 19 Pacific Island countries in the PCGIAP

and

- ask the PCGIAP Executive Board to assess any resulting need to amend the PCGIAP Statutes and seek endorsement of any proposed amendments at the meeting of PCGIAP in 2000.

RESOLUTION 2 - Institutional Strengthening.

Noting that:

The Pacific Group has agreed that its priority one project is institutional strengthening

and

the PCGIAP Taskforce work associated with its questionnaire and related activities is an important initiative in gathering information and identifying development needs projects regarding member countries’ surveying, mapping and GIS activities,

and

the above Taskforce activity is however not sufficiently comprehensive as a major institutional strengthening exercise as identified by the Pacific Group,

PCGIAP resolves to reply to the Pacific Group as follows:

At its meeting in 2000, the PCGIAP will consider whether the Pacific Group$BCT(B priority one project (institutional strengthening) could be adopted as either:

- a whole of PCGIAP project
or
- a PCGIAP endorsed project of the Pacific Group.

RESOLUTION 3 - Remote sensing data library for the Pacific.

Recognising that the Pacific Group is in a unique position regarding remote sensing data availability for the followiing reasons:

- There is no permanent ground station in the area

- Cloud cover is a major hindrance to obtaining scenes suitable for mapping and related uses

- Cloud free aerial photography is difficult to capture

PCGIAP resolves that:

- the Pacific Group's priority three project to develop a remote sensing data library for the Pacific be an endorsed PCGIAP project that will be undertaken within the resources and capacity of the Pacific Group.

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Proposed PCGIAP cadastral working group:

RESOLUTION

Recognising:

the importance of the cadastre in national spatial data infrastructures of PCGIAP member countries,

and

the extensive work carried out by FIG Commission 7 on cadastral issues;

PCGIAP resolves that:

1. PCGIAP seeks to establish and maintain ties with FIG Commission 7;
   
3. at the next UNRCC-AP, FIG Commission 7 be invited to convene a technical seminar on the cadastre and also be invited to prepare a paper detailing a proposed workplan for a PCGIAP cadastral working group which addresses resourcing and implementation; and
   
5. consideration to form a PCGIAP cadastral working group be considered after this technical seminar.
   

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