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 Information production, dissemination and use scenario is very far from optimal, causing a lot of problems and shortcomings. The reason is that usual present organization of the GI life cycle in most countries was conceived in the 19th century, in a completely different social and technological environment. New technologies recently developed in the GI domain can help us face successfully the enormous challenges of 21st century. To take full advantage of this technical advances and improve the knowledge of our world, completely new ways of organizing the GI processes are needed.